Southern Underwriters v. Hoopes

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal in a compensation case, advanced here pursuant to this Court’s Rule XI (c), is from a judgment awarding claimants compensation against the insurer, entered on a jury’s verdict in response to special issues, wherein it had been found that claimants’ husband and father, William D. Hoopes, deceased, had sustained a com-pensable injury on April 14 of 1937, from which he afterwards died, while in the course of his- employment for J. B. Hand-ley, a subscriber under the Compensation Law, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 8306 et seq., whose risks as such employer were carried by…