Case ID: sw2d_91/html/0321-01.html
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Author: {"author": "HICKMAN, Commissioner.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

TEXAS EMPLOYERS INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff in Error, v. Mrs. J.W. IRBY et al., Defendants in Error.
    No. 1945—6569.
    Commission of Appeals of Texas, Section A.
    Feb. 26, 1936.
    T. R. Boone, of Wichita Falls, and Lawther, Cox & Cramer and Wm. M. Cramer, all of Dallas, for plaintiff in error.
    Grindstaff, Zellers & Hutcheson, of Weatherford, Weeks, Morrow, Francis & Hankerson, of Wichita Falls, and B. W. Tipton, of Electra, for defendants in error.
   HICKMAN, Commissioner.

This is a companion case to the cases of Texas Employers Insurance Association v. Mrs. Maranda Russell et al., 91 S.W. (2d) 317, and Texas Employers Insurance Association v. Maurice Snyder et al., 91 S.W. (2d) 320, this day decided. The defendants in error are the beneficiaries under the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 8306 et seq.) of J. W. Kenworthy, who lost his life in the same explosion that took the lives of J. B. Russell and J. H. Snyder. In this case, as in the Snyder Case, the trial court sustained a general demurrer to the petition of the claimants. For the reasons assigned in the opinions in the companion cases, we order that the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals be reversed and that of the trial court be affirmed.

Opinion adopted by the Supreme Court.