Anderson v. St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Co.

HARDY, Judge.

This is an action for workman’s compensation originally instituted against St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Company as insurer of plaintiff’s employer, the partnership firm of Graham & McGee, contractors of Beaumont, Texas. After trial there was judgment in favor of defendant rej ecting plaintiff’s demands, from which plaintiff has appealed.

On January 26, 1951, while employed as a mechanic by Graham & McGee, who were engaged in levee construction operations on a job, known as the “McNeely Set-back”, near Colfax in Grant Parish, Louisiana, plaintiff sustained an accidental injury which…