AMERICAN GENERAL INS. CO. v. JONES

No. 12397.

250 S.W.2d 663 (1952)

AMERICAN GENERAL INS. CO. v. JONES et vir.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Galveston.

Rehearing Denied July 17, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vinson, Elkins & Weems, C. M. High-tower and B. Jeff Crane, Jr., of Houston, for appellant.

Bliss Daffan and Wm. B. Irwin, Jr., of Houston, for appellees.


CODY, Justice.

This is a workmen's compensation case. Here Mrs. William Jones, joined by her husband, sued, as the sole beneficiary under the Workmen's Compensation law entitled to recover benefits, for the death of her father, Walter Granville Wheat, who, at the time of his death, was employed as a night watchman for the Gulf Bitulithic Company, which company had the contract to construct that part of the Galveston-Houston Super Highway, known as the Galveston Wye...

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