Emmons v. Pacific Indemnity Co.

Petitioner filed this suit in the district court, to set aside an award of the Industrial Accident Board, alleging that he had sustained injuries on or about March 27, 1946, while in the course of his employment with the Levingston Shipbuilding Company, at Orange, Texas, and that he was entitled to recover benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Act of Texas. Respondent filed its plea in abatement under oath, contending that the trial court had no jurisdiction, because petitioner’s injury was of a maritime nature, exclusively within the jurisdiction of admiralty, and that the Texas…