Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n v. Hale

LUMPKIN, Justice.

' The principal question to be determined on this appeal is whether the record shows, as a matter of law, that at the time of his injury the appellee, James Floyd Hale, occupied the status of a Texas employee of the Warren and Bradshaw Drilling Company. The appellee claims that although he was injured in New Mexico, he was, nevertheless, “an employee, .who had been hired in this 'State.” The suit was brought under the extra-territorial provisions of the Texas Workmen’s Compensation Act, Article 8306, Section 19, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statutes.

The appellant, Texas…