Watkins v. Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n

SHANNON, Justice.

Appellants, Ruth I. Watkins and Timothy Neil Watkins, the surviving widow and minor child of Clifford Watkins, appeal from a judgment non obstante veredicto entered by the district court of Sterling County that they take nothing in a workmen’s compensation ease. Appellee is Texas Employers’ Insurance Association. We will affirm that judgment.

Clifford Watkins, died in Sterling County on January 18, 1974, from a gunshot wound to the left side of his head. On that date he was employed by Seidel, Inc., as an operator of a road grader on a highway construction project between…