Webster v. Southwestern Bell Tel. Co.

SUTTON, Justice.

This is an appeal from the Fifty-seventh District Court-of Bexar County. The parties will be designated as they were styled in the trial court.

Gertrude Webster, surviving wife of D. J. Webster, as plaintiff, sued the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, as defendant, to recover a sum of money equal to the annual wages of D. J. Webster, deceased, under a “Plan for Employees’ Pensions, Disability Benefits and Death Benefits,” as inaugurated and maintained by the defendant. The trial was to the court and jury. The case was submitted to the jury on one issue, wherein they were…