Georgia Casualty Co. v. Ward, (No. 2241.)
Decision Date | 11 March 1920 |
Docket Number | (No. 2241.) |
Citation | 220 S.W. 380 |
Parties | GEORGIA CASUALTY CO. v. WARD et al.<SMALL><SUP>*</SUP></SMALL> |
Court | Texas Court of Appeals |
Appeal from District Court, Hunt County; A. P. Dononey, Judge.
Action by Jessie Ward and others against the Georgia Casualty Company and others. Judgment for certain of the plaintiffs, and the named defendant appeals. Reversed and dismissed.
In June, 1916, the Farmers' Cotton Oil Company, then operating a manufacturing plant at Wichita Falls, was a "subscriber" and appellant was "the association," within the meaning of the Employers' Liability Act, approved April 16, 1913. General Laws, c. 179 ( ). On the 2d day of that month W. S. Ward, then an employé of said oil company, was injured in the course of his employment by being struck on the head by a wrench thrown by machinery in the oil company's plant. One Dea, said oil company's superintendent, was present at the time the accident occurred, and afterwards, but on the same day, caused a notice thereof to be sent to appellant and to the Industrial Accident Board created by said act. Ward did not present a claim for compensation as provided by the act until March 13, 1918. On that day he made such a claim on appellant, and at the same time forwarded a copy thereof to said board. There is nothing in the record showing action of any kind by the board on the claim. This suit was commenced by Ward April 2, 1918. He died April 15, 1918. By an amended petition filed April 17, 1918, his mother and his widow, for herself and as next friend for her minor child, became plaintiffs. They alleged that the injury Ward suffered June 2, 1916, as hereinbefore stated, was the cause of his death. The trial was to the court without a jury, and resulted in a judgment in favor of said widow and minor child against appellant for $1,330, and that the mother take nothing by the suit. The appeal was by the casualty company alone.
Frank S. Anderson, of Galveston, for appellant.
B. Q. Evans, of Greenville, for appellees.
WILLSON, C. J. (after stating the facts as above).
Part of section 4a, pt. 2, of the Employers' Liability Act approved April 16, 1913 (General Laws, pp. 429 to 438 [Vernon's Sayles' Ann. Civ. St. 1914, art. 5246ppp]), was as follows:
This court held to the contrary of the contention in the (to the writer) satisfactory opinions by Justice Levy in Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. House, 191 S. W. 155, and Roach v. Employers' Ins. Ass'n, 195 S. W. 328. As we view the matter, the conclusion reached in those cases was a sound one. Other objections to the judgment are set out in the assignments, but we think none of them presents a reason why it should be reversed. Therefore it is affirmed.
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