American General Insurance Company v. Barrett

CHADICK, Chief Justice.

This is a compensation case appealed from Harris County and transferred from the First Supreme Judicial District to the Sixth by an equalization of dockets order of the Supreme Court. The case is affirmed for the reasons hereinafter stated.

Eddie Barrett, Sr., a Negro man 60 years of age, had been employed by Brown & Root, Inc., regularly for several years and was seldom absent from his employment. Barrett, in apparent good health, was leaving that firm’s job on the premises of Humble Oil & Refining Company at Baytown on the afternoon of July 14, 1954, immediately after…