Consolidated Underwriters v. Adams

O’QUINN, Justice.

This case arose under the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 8306 et seq.). The receiver of the Kirby Lumber Company was the employer. Ed Adams, appellee, the employee; and appellant, Consolidated Underwriters, the insurance carrier.

An agreement in the record discloses that appellee, on January 23, 1934, received an injury while in the course of his employment, notice of which was given to his employer and the insurer, appellant, within 30 days of the injury, and that insurer, Consolidated Underwriters, paid various sums of compensation, in all amounting to…