Southern Underwriters v. West

MURRAY, Justice.

This is an action arising under the Workmen’s Compensation Law, Art. 8306 et seq., Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. S. O. West is the alleged injured employee, Ben F. Smith the employer, and the Southern Underwriters, the insurance carrier.

West alleges that while engaged in the course of his employment with Ben F. Smith, as a roughneck, he “and co-workers were pushing the elevators from the rotary, and the bail came out of the hook, striking plaintiff on the right side of his head, neck and shoulders; that as a proximate result of said accident, plaintiff sustained the following injuries,…