Graves v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.

Mr. Judge Taylor

delivered the opinion for the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

On January 16, 1938, Carroll Graves was an employee of West Texas Cotton Oil Company in the capacity of a mill hand. He had worked for the company at different intervals subsequent to June, 1935, when he graduated from high school. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company was the compensation insurance carrier for the cotton oil company and Dr. J. Frank Clark was the indemnity company’s doctor, who passed on the physical fitness of the prospective employees of the cotton oil company before they began work and gave…