Traders & General Insurance Co. v. McDaniel

HIGHTOWER, Justice.

The jury verdict resulted in a judgment for appellees for full death benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 8306 et seq. Of appellant’s nine points of error, the first four complain of the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the jury’s findings that the deceased sustained an accidental injury, and that death was the natural result thereof.

Gregor McDaniel, the deceased, was an employee of the City of Timpson, Texas. Part of his duties consisted of climbing electric light poles for the purpose of refusing transformers and hanging service…