Maryland Casualty Co. v. Kent

The nature of the case is fully exhibited in the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals. 271 S. W. 929. An important question here is the existence vel non of a relation between Kent (the insured) and Gulf Refining Company (subscriber per the Workmen’s Compensation Law), which amounted to that of employer and employs (article 5246 — 82, Vernon’s Sayles’ Tex. Civ. Statutes 1918 as amended; article 8309, R. S. 1925), wherein it is said that an “employs” is a “person in the service of another under any contract of hire, expressed or implied,” etc.

The relation is evidenced by the writing executed…