Southern Surety Co. v. Martin

This is an appeal from the district court of Tarrant county, awarding appellee a judgment for $6,593.79 as a lump sum compensation for total disability or incapacity to work resulting from an injury sustained by him in the course of his employment by Southwell & Abbott, a partnership, under the terms and provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Law of the state of Texas.

The case appeared in the district court upon an appeal from a previous award of the Industrial Accident Board, with which the appellant surety company refused to comply. The fact that appellee’s injury, if any, was sustained…