Commercial Casualty Insurance v. Hilton

A full statement of the case is made in the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals. 55 S.W.2d 120. An abridged statement will be sufficient for the purposes of this decision.

I. C. Hilton was the employee and Commercial Casualty Insurance Company was the insurer, as those terms are employed in the Workmen's Compensation Law. The employee was injured in the course of his employment. Later a settlement was made between him and the insurer, the terms of which being reduced to writing and signed by the respective parties. After conducting an independent investigation of its own, the Industrial…