Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Williams

DAVIS, Justice.

John Williams, deceased, sustained an injury to his right ankle on October 9, 1953, while working as a longshoreman for the Southern Stevedoring & Contracting Company, the assured of the appellant, Texas Employers’ Insurance Ass’n. Although the skin was not broken, nor fractures or dislocations discovered, there was much swelling and tenderness in the area of the injury. Williams was a bed patient from the date of the injury to the date of his death on De <"nber 7, 1953, except for trips to the hospufcJ for treatment and to the office of appdant on a tew occasions to pick up…