Maryland Casualty Co. v. Crofford

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

Appellee was employed by the Coltexo Gasoline Corporation as a laborer. In the course of his employment, while handing drinking water to men engaged ill digging a deep trench, the edge of the trench crumbled and he fell into it, striking his back and side on a pipe being laid in the bottom of the trench. As a result he suffered a hernia and other injuries. He applied to the Industrial Accident Board for an award of compensation under the provisions of the Texas Workmen’s Compensation Law, articles 8306-8309, R. C. S. 1925, as amended.

Section 12, art. 8306, provides for…