Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n v. Birdwell

HICKMAN, C. J. .

This suit was instituted in the- court below by appellant against appellees, Mrs. Ella Birdwell and Pauline Birdwell,' a minor, to set' aside an award of the Industrial Accident Board. The appellees filed their cross-action, alleging that they were respectively the widow and minor child of T. C. Birdwell, deceased; that on or about April 22, 1929, while engaged in the course of his employment with A. C. Fox, appellant’s subscriber, said T. C. Birdwell sustained certain personal injuries, from which he died on January 25, 1930; that they were the- sole exclusive beneficiaries…