Mitchell v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.

KENNERLY, District Judge.

This is a suit by plaintiff against defendant for compensation under the Texas Workmen’s Compensation Law, Articles 8306 to 8309a, Vernon’s Annotated Texas Civil Statutes. Plaintiff L. C. Mitchell is the employee, the firm or partnership of Wohlfeld-Dalton-Dellone is the employer, and defendant the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York is the insurer, underwriting the payment of compensation owing by employer to their employees.

On or about March 6, 1941, employer was a contractor, engaged in building houses at Camp Wallace, near Hitchcock, in Galveston County, in…