United Employers Casualty Co. v. Lee

WALKER, Chief Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case, filed in district court of Angelina county by appellee, Bud Lee, as an appeal from an adverse award of the Industrial Accident Board, on allegations that he was the employee, J. B. Oliver the employer, and appellant, United Employers Casualty Company, the compensation insurance carrier. For cause of action he alleged that on the 9th day of November, 1939, while trimming a log in the course of his employment with Oliver, “a pine knot flew up and struck him in the right eye causing him to lose sight in the right eye, lose the hearing…