Travelers Insurance Company v. Garcia

OPINION

CLAYTON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in the District Court of El Paso County, Texas in a Workmen’s Compensation case.

Plaintiff, appellee here, filed suit in an appeal from the award of the Industrial Accident Board. She testified that she *631had entered into a common-law marriage which ended with the death of her husband in 1958. She related she had worked for Safeway food stores continuously from 1953 through January of 1961. On January 6, 1961 there was an armed robbery in her store in which she, as a checker, was one of the victims. She was “scared to death”, thought she…