General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp. v. Bundren

This is an appeal from an award of the Industrial Accident Board. On August 1, 1922, the appellee, Bundren, was employed by W. B. Culp. The latter carried a policy of assurance with the appellant, General Accident Eire & Life Assurance Corporation, Ltd., in compliance with the provisions of the Employers’ liability Act (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. 1918, arts. 5246-1 to 5246-91) of this state. On the date above mentioned, while engaged in painting, the appellee was injured in a fall from a scaffold on which he was standing. He later presented his claim and secured an allowance from the Industrial…