Commercial Standard Insurance Company v. Marin

CADENA, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the trial court ordered the payment of benefits for the death of Santa Emily Marin, an employee of Sigmor Shamrock Services Stations, who was raped and murdered in the darkness of the early morning hours of Sunday, September 14, 1969, as she was in the process of performing her duty as an employee to open her employer’s service station for business. The judgment ordering payment of compensation to her surviving husband, Raul Marin, Jr., the appellee here, was based on a jury finding that she died as the result of injuries received…