TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INSURANCE ASSOCIATION v. Butler

TUNKS, Chief Justice.

Texas Employers’ Insurance Association, as a workmen’s compensation carrier, has appealed from a judgment awarding a widow and surviving children death benefits. The decedent, Billy Joe Butler, was an employee of Dow Chemical Company where he was the operator of a dioxane plant. The plaintiffs alleged that he sustained an accidental injury in the course of his employment in that he inhaled dioxane gas and that such injury was a producing cause of his death. The jury found such injury and cause and the trial court rendered judgment for the survivors on that verdict. The…