Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n v. Peppers

CODY, Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation case, and as such, advanced on the docket of this court.

The defendant in error is a longshoreman, and was seriously injured while unloading scrap iron from 'a car at Texas City, and loading same upon a ship, when the electric magnet weighing some two tons, and which was used to lift the scrap iron from the car onto the ship, fell on him. The Industrial Accident Board rendered an award of 200 weeks compensation at the rate of $18.60 per week, less a credit of $399.60 theretofore voluntarily paid defendant in error by plaintiff in error. In due…