Knipe v. Texas Employers Ins. Ass'n

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case. Max Knipe was an employee of Moutray-Moore Drilling Company. While returning from the site of a well, being drilled by said company, near Hamlin to Abilene, where he lived, with instructions from the tool pusher in charge of his crew to report to his employer’s office in Abilene that the pipe had been set in their well, and while traveling along the same route he ordinarily traveled returning home from work, Knipe was injured in an automobile accident. A jury found that he sustained the injury in the course of his employment. The…