Underwriters v. Kirby Lumber Co.

Under the allegations of plaintiff’s petition, ,Joe Singletary died January 4, 1920, as a result of injuries inflicted upon him, a month and four days previous to that date, by servants of the Kirby Lumber Company, while he was in the course of his employment in behalf of another corporation, under circumstances entitling him before his death, and his legal beneficiaries after his death, both to recover damages of the Kirby Lumber Company, and to receive compensation under the amended Employers’ Liability Act, unless the law disallowed that both re-courses might be had. His employer, it is…