Petroleum Casualty Co. v. Schooley

HIGGINS, Justice.

This is a suit by the appellee Schooley upon appeal from an adverse ruling of the Industrial Accident Board upon his claim for compensation under the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Vernon’s Ann.Civ. St. art. 8306 et seq.). Plaintiff in his petition alleged that he was an employee of the Humble Pipe Line Company and “On or about the 4th day of May, 1937, plaintiff, while engaged in one of his usual and customary duties of lining 8" pipe for a welder, sustained an accidental injury, by reason of lifting said pipe and the dropping of the other end thereof, straining the muscles of…