Gulf States Utilities Co. v. Moore

COMBS, Justice.

Henry T. Moore was killed as a result 'of coming in contact with an electrically charged telephone wire while in the employ of the appellant near Liberty, Tex., on May 22, 1930. The appellant, a private corporation, did not carry workmen’s compensation insurance on its employees, although it was eligible to carry such insurance, and this suit was filed in the Fifty-Eighth district court of Jefferson county by Mrs. Edith Moore, surviving wife of Henry T. Moore, as a common-law action to recover damages in the sum of $75,000, plus an additional $2,000 alleged to have been spent…