Texas Employers' Ins. v. Herring

This case is fully stated by the Court of Civil Appeals in its opinion, reported in 269 S. W. 249. Briefly, this is a suit by the widow of Charlie Herring to recover compensation under the Employers’ Liability Act of this state (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. Supp. 1918, arts. 5246 — 1 to 5246 — 91), because of the death of her husband, which she alleged was due to an ae-.cidental injury he received while in the course of his employment drilling an oil well for one M. B. Hale. In the district court she was awarded a lump sum judgment for the cash value of $15 per week for 360 weeks. Prom this…