Maryland Casualty Co. v. Davis

MONTEITH, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal in a workman’s compensation suit brought by appellant, Maryland Casualty Company, to set aside an award of the- Industrial Accident Board in favor of appellee, Willie Davis, as compensation for injuries alleged to have been sustained by him in the course of his employment with the Texas Company, who carried compensation insurance with appellant.

Appellee, by answer and cross-action, alleged that while loading sacks of clay or Fuller’s Earth from a stock pile to a hand truck at his employer’s plant at Riverside, Texas, several of said sacks fell on him,…