Bartle v. Travelers Ins.

WALLER, Circuit Judge.

This is an action for death benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Act of Texas, brought by the widow of F. B. Bartle, who, prior to his death, was a distributing agent of the Gulf Refining Company at Conroe, Texas. The Refining Company, asserting that Bartle was an independent contractor, denies that any employer-employee, or master-servant, relationship existed, and thus is raised the chief issue in the case.

*471Four years prior to Bartle’s death he had entered into, and had been in the performance of, a written contract with Gulf Refining Company for the sale and…