Federal Underwriters Exchange v. Porterfield

MURRAY, Justice.

This is a suit for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. In the trial court the plaintiff, James Porter-field, the appellee here, recovered judgment for total and permanent disability in a lump sum, against Federal Underwriters Exchange, appellant, as insurance carrier for Peavy-Moore Lumber Company.

Porterfield was injured in a wreck while riding in a truck of Peavy-Moore Lumber Company on the highway between Orange and Beaumont, November 5, 1942. While the evidence is conflicting, it is sufficient to support a finding that he had been employed the day before by…