WHITNEY v. EMPLOYERS CASUALTY CO.

No. 11681.

158 F.2d 209 (1946)

WHITNEY et al. v. EMPLOYERS CASUALTY CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Rice, of Houston, Tex., for appellants.

Larry W. Morris, of Houston, Tex., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, WALLER, and LEE, Circuit Judges.


LEE, Circuit Judge.

The Austin Company, general contractor for the construction of a plant for the Dow Chemical Company at Freeport, Texas, sublet certain pile-driving work to appellants. A member of appellants' pile-driving crew, one Hill, was injured when a large wooden mat being moved by the pile-driving crane fell on him. Hill collected the statutory compensation from The Travelers Insurance Company, which provided workmen...

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