Texas Employers Ins. Ass'n v. Young

WILLIAMS, Justice.

Appellees, Mrs. Ora Young and children, claimants below, were awarded a lump sum judgment under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. '8306 et seq., against appellant, Texas Employers Insurance Association, growing out of the death of Frank Young, the husband and father. The jury found that on September 30, 1948, at or about 5 a. m., the deceased, while engaged “in firing a boiler and night-watching for and as an employee of Newton-Shank Manufacturing Company,” overexerted himself; that this was a producing cause of the cerebral hemorrhage, which resulted…