Mrs. Bennie Ray Hatfield v. Anthony Forest Products Company v. Southwestern Electric Power Company, Third-Party

SUTTLE, District Judge.

Bennie Ray Hatfield and Burl Douglas Hines suffered an electric shock while constructing a metal building in the Atlanta, Texas, lumberyard of defendant, Anthony Forest Products Co. Hatfield was electrocuted and Hines badly burned. Hatfield’s survivors and Hines won a jury verdict in their negligence suit for damages against Anthony Forest Products. 1 Anthony Forest Products appeals from the judgment against it claiming (1) that the trial court erred in finding that Hatfield and Hines were not covered under the defendant’s workers’ compensation insurance policy and thus…