Standard Acc. Ins. Co. v. Barron

This case arose under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. art. 8306 et seq.). William K. Barron was the employee, the Del Rio Stone Company the subscribing employer, and the Standard Accident Insurance Company the insurer. Barron was injured in the course of his employment with the stone company as a laborer in the latter’s stone quarry in Kinney county. He prosecuted a claim before the Industrial Accident Board, which awarded him compensation, and on the insurer’s appeal to the district court he was again awarded compensation as for a total permanent disability occasioned…