Texas Employers Ins. Ass'n v. Ferguson

SPEER, Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation case. Mrs. Cora A. Ferguson, a widow, mother of Thomas Jackson Ferguson, deceased, sued as beneficiary to recover statutory compensation as against Texas Employers Insurance Association, carrier of compensation insurance on the employees of B. R. Bradford, doing business as Bradford Transfer & Storage Company.

At the beginning of the trial counsel for the insurance carrier admitted in open court that Thomas Jackson Ferguson met his death on November 20, 1944, from an accidental injury described in the pleadings of the parties, and that if…