Texas Compensation Ins. Co. v. Ellison

In this workmen's compensation case Miss Edna Ellison was the employee, the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company the employer, and the Texas Compensation Insurance Company the insurer. The jury found that the employee died as a result of an injury received by her in the course of her employment with the telephone company. Mrs. Nannie Ellison recovered compensation as surviving parent and sole beneficiary of the decedent.

At the time of her injury Miss Ellison was a long distance operator at the switchboard in the telephone company's exchange at Corpus Christi. She entered that employment about…