Texas Employers Ins. Ass'n v. Van Pelt

HALL, Chief Justice.

Ralph Van Pelt brought this suit against the Texas Employers Insurance Association to recover compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. art. 8306 et seq.), alleging, in substance, that on May 8, 1931, he was an employee of James Foran in Hutchinson county. That Foran was a subscriber under the Compensation Law, holding a policy issued by the appellant insurance company. That on the date mentioned, while assisting in the operation of a trench machine, and while the machine was in motion, his right sleeve became fastened in the drive chain,…