Maryland Casualty Co. v. Brown

BAUGH, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. Karotkin Furniture Company of Austin, as employer, carried a workmen’s compensation policy with appellant, as insurer, covering its employees. W. S. Brown, one of its employees, received an injury in 1934, for which the Industrial Accident Board awarded him compensation at $15 per week for 401 weeks. The insurer sued in the district court to set aside this award. Upon a trial to the court without a jury, the court awarded Brown compensation at the rate of $20 per week for 401 weeks, decreed that it be paid in a lump sum, and fixed the…