Maryland Casualty Co. v. Gunter

GRAVES, Justice.

This is a compensation suit. Sam E. Gunter is the employee, Maryland Casualty Company is the insurer, and the Texas Company is the employer.

Gunter, as plaintiff, filed suit against the Casualty Company, as defendant, for total and permanent disability as. a result of injuries claimed to have been sustained on or about May 25, 1941, when a “Christmas Tree” (a 1,400-pound piece of metallic oilfield equipment), fell on him, less 17 monthly installments of compensation at $20 each paid him by it for such injuries immediately following the accident. The defendant alleged, both that…