Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Williams

OPINION

JAMES, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case involving death benefits. Plaintiff-Appellant Texas Employers’ Insurance Association brought this suit in the nature of an .interpleader action in the District Court of Johnson County, Texas, against James Earl Williams, (a minor), Freeman Brown, L. E. Spellman, and Lowell E. Dushman, (attorney).

The death benefits grew out of the death of Mrs. Doris Ann Brown, a workman who died on or about July 10, 1973, from injuries growing out of her employment with Gearhart-Owen Industries, Inc. Defendant-Appellee James Earl Williams was the…