Smith v. Fireman's Insurane Co. of Newark

WERLEIN, Justice.

This suit was brought by appellant, Harold F. Smith, to recover compensation benefits from appellee as the result of an injury sustained by him when he fell from a scaffold while engaged in putting aluminum siding on a house in Huntsville, Texas. Appellant alleged that at the time of such injury he was working in the course of his employment for Texas American Builders, a subscriber to the Workmen’s Compensation Law of Texas. Appellee specifically pled that appellant was not an employee of Texas American Builders but was an employee of one Robert Dohone, an independent…