New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Morrison

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was a suit under the Texas Workmen’s Compensation Law. The appellee’s petition contained allegations to the following effect: While appellee was acting in the course of his employment, two or more pieces of steel penetrated his right eye as a result of an act of a coemployee while engaged in the same employment. Because of the injury so received, appellee’s eye was removed, and, due to the steel particles being embedded in the eye, poisons were formed whieh had the effect, *217in addition to destroying the sight of the light eye, of injuring and incapacitating the other…