Bush v. Associated Indemnity Corp.

ATWELL, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff is the surviving wife of employee Bush who was working for an oil drilling concern which was drilling a well a little over thirty miles from Bowie, Texas.

The defendant is the insurance company which wrote the compensation insurance for that employer.

The defendant contends that decedent Bush was not in the regular course of his employment at the time of his death on a street in Bowie, Texas.

The facts appear to be, as shown by the pleadings, deposition, and affidavits, that Bush was one of four men working on a well at the same tower. That they alternated in…