TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INSURANCE ASSOCIATION v. Hartel

NORTHCUTT, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The parties will be referred to as they were in the trial court. Plaintiff, in seeking to recover for the loss of the use of his left hand and arm, alleged that:

“ * * * on or about October 30, 1953, and prior thereto, plaintiff herein was in the employ of Plead Drilling Company, Tnc., in Garza County, Texas ; and that' he was engaged in the course of his usual and regular employment for said employer; that while engaged in his employment as an employee, laborer and/or oil field worker for said above mentioned employer, Head- Drilling…