Southern Surety Co. v. Weaver

In August, 1922, C. C. Cannon was engaged in drilling for oil in Liberty county, and under the Employer’s Liability Act (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. Supp.-1918, arts. 5246 — 1 to 5246 — 91) carried insurance on his employees with the Southern. Surety Company. On August 9,1922, E. E. Weaver, an unmarried man, one of Cannon’s employees, while acting in the scope of his employment, received injuries in a boiler explosion, from the effect of which he died in about 10 hours. At the time of the accident, Weaver’s mother was not living, and his father had married again. In addition to his father, Weaver…