Pena v. Petroleum Casualty Company

This cause, arising under the workmen’s compensation law, has been transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court of Texas. An examination of the record discloses that appellants appeal from a judgment denying compensation benefits for the death of the husband-father, based upon a jury finding that the decedent was not in the course of his employment at the time he received the injuries causing his death.

The appeal was duly perfected to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Thirteenth Supreme Judicial District of Texas at Corpus Christi, the record being filed therein on March 3, 1969.…