Maryland Casualty Co. v. Crosby

WALKER, Chief Justice.

This suit, a compensation case, was filed by appellee, B. F. Crosby, the employee, against appellant, Maryland Casualty Company, the compensation carrier, in the district court of Jefferson County as an appeal from an adverse award of the Industrial Accident Board, made on the 9th day of February, 1937. Appellee alleged that, on or about the 10th day of April, 1931, while in the course of his employment with the Texas Company and while using an electric blowtorch, his eyes were burned severely by the torch, and as a proximate result “the vision of his right eye will…