Texas Employers Insurance Ass'n v. Goad

MOORE, Justice.

This is a worker’s compensation case. Leslie Jean Goad joined by her children brought suit to recover fatal benefits under sec. 8a, article 8306, et seq., Tex.Rev.Civ. Stat. (1925). She alleged that John Goad, her husband, was killed in the course and scope of his employment for S. K. Church Furniture Company of Jacksonville, Texas, while returning to Jacksonville from a job near Longview, Texas, when the truck driven by deceased ran off the highway at night causing him to suffer fatal injuries.

The case was tried to a jury which returned a single-issue verdict favorable to the…