Associated Indemnity Corp. v. Bush

STRUM, Circuit Judge.

This action arises under the Texas Workmen’s Compensation Law, Art. 8306 et seq., Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes. The question is whether or not appellee’s husband, Porter Bush, was acting within the course of his employment within the meaning of Art. 8309' of the Texas statute on September 16, 1950, when he received fatal injuries in an automobile collision.

The deceased was an experienced oil field driller, in charge of a crew of three other men, who were employed with others to drill a well in a rural location about 33 miles from Bowie, where decedent and his crew…