Traders' & General Ins. Co. v. Bailey

LATTIMORE, Justice.

On September 14, 1931, appellee was injured while working for the Independent Crushed Stone Company, for which company appellant carried workmen’s compensation insurance. Some dynamite exploded driving bits of rock and dirt into appel-lee’s hand and arm and chest and knocking him unconscious, and on the trial of the case he contended it had injured the valvular action of his heart.

Without any order by the Industrial Accident Board, appellant began to pay ap-pellee compensation of $7 a week in accordance with the terms of the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Rev. St. 1925, art.…