Clyde Flowers v. The Travelers Insurance Company

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

Now entering upon its fifth decade with a tenacity which refuses to acquiesce in occasional contemporary reports of its final rejection, Jensen 1 and its limitless wake 2 is once again the heart of the old, old controversy: is workmen’s compensation coverage under the State (Texas) or Federal (Longshoremen and Harbor Workers’ Compensation) Act? The District Court held that the Texas Act could not apply. Here, as so often, the facts, strikingly simple, neither complex nor conflicting, are not the cause of bewilderment. On them, the picture is clear-cut. What…