Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n v. Fort Worth & D. C. Ry. Co.

HEARE, Justice.

Texas Employers Insurance Association, the carrier of workmen’s compensation insurance for Vernon Cotton Oil Company, employer, instituted this suit against the Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Company for $1596.86 plus $650, attorneys’ fees, alleging that Jimmie Grimes, an employee of Vernon Cotton Oil Company, was injured while in the course of his employment by reason of the negligence of the railway company in maintaining a defective freight-loading platform in Vernon, Texas; that the insurance carrier had paid to the employee, or for his benefit, the amount of $1596.86, as…