Maryland Casualty Co. v. Ferguson

This case was tried on an agreed statement of facts, and from the judgment rendered this appeal is prosecuted. The agreed statement of facts may be summarized, for the purposes of this opinion, as follows:

On February 21, 1920, the Southwestern Oil Development Company was a subscriber under the provision of the Workmen's Compensation Law of Texas, and at that time carried a policy of insurance with the Maryland Casualty Company, and at that time was engaged in drilling oil wells near the town of Desdemona, Tex. On the day mentioned Virgil B. Ferguson was in the employ of the Southwestern Oil…