Western Indemnity Co. v. Leonard

Prom a judgment of the district court of Harris county, sustaining an award of compensation made by the Industrial Accident Board, under the Texas Workmen’s Compensation Act (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. Supp. 1918, arts. 5246 — 1 to 5246 — 91), against the Western Indemnity Company, and in favor of Mrs. Effie V. Leonard, for the death of her husband, James Leonard, an employs of the Universal Shipbuilding Company, a “subscriber” as defined in the Workmen’s Compensation Act, carrying a policy of insurance with the indemnity company, an appeal was prosecuted by the Western Indemnity Company to the…