Pruitte v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court of Marion county sustaining certain pleas of appellee to the jurisdiction of the court and dismissing causes No. 9687 and No. 9716 which had theretofore been consolidated by the court. It is alleged that Frank Pruitte, while working for the Marshall Compress at Marshall, Tex., on August 29, 1928, received an injury (heat prostration) ; that said Pruitte partially recovered from this injury, and on August 31, 1928, while working for the Jefferson Compress at Jefferson, Tex., received another such injury from which he died on September 6,…