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TEXAS EMPLOYERS' INSURANCE ASS'N v. ELDER

No. A-5125.

282 S.W.2d 371 (1955)

TEXAS EMPLOYERS' INSURANCE ASS'N, Petitioner, v. Ethel Mae ELDER, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 19, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burford, Ryburn, Hincks & Ford, Logan Ford and Clarence A. Guittard, Dallas, for Texas Employers Ins. Ass'n.

John Ben Shepperd, Atty. Gen., and J. Milton Richardson and Robert O. Fagg, Asst. Attys. Gen., for Industrial Accident Board.

West, Howard & Mitchell, Dallas, for respondent Ethel Mae Elder.

HICKMAN, Chief Justice.

In the trial court respondent, Ethel Mae Elder, suing as the surviving common-law wife of a deceased employee, Grover Cleveland Elder, recovered judgment against petitioner for death benefits under the Workmen's Compensation Law, Vernon's Ann.Civ.St. article 8306 et seq. That judgment was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 274 S.W.2d 144. Petitioner defended the action on the ground that the alleged...

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