Millers' Indemnity Underwriters v. Braud

The court below affirmed a judgment of the Orange County District Court in favor of defendant in error for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Law of Texas (Gen. Laws 1917, p. 269) on account of the death of her brother, O. 0. Boudreaux. April 17, 1920, while employed as a diver by the National Ship Building Company, he submerged himself from a floating barge anchored in the navigable Sabine River thirty-five feet from the bank, for the purpose of sawing off the timbers of an abandoned set of ways, once used for launching ships, which had become an obstruction to navigation. While…