Superior Insurance Company v. Burnes

HAMBLEN, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted in the District Court of Harris County by the appellee, W. E. Burnes, to recover compensation for alleged total permanent disability under the workmen’s compensation statutes of the State of Texas. Appellee, while within the course of his employment for the Wyatt Metal and Boiler Works in Houston, was unfastening a chain from an overhead crane that was attached to a so-called “skirt-ring”, which is a large metal cylinder twelve feet in diameter and six feet high. Appellee was on top of the “skirt-ring”, and jumped off it, a distance óf six feet,…