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- Title: Martha J. Freeman v. Texas Compensation Insurance Company
- Author : The Supreme Court of Texas
- Release Date : January 18, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 77 KB
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This is a suit to recover workers compensation death benefits for the widow and minor children of Jimmy Bolding, a former employee of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Bolding was killed on September 14, 1974, when his car hit a concreate pillar adjacent to a freeway in Fort Worth. His widow, Martha Bolding, now Martha Freeman, sued the compensation insurance carrier, Texas Compensation Insurance Company (TCIC), claiming that her husband was killed in the course of his employment. Although a jury found that Bolding death resulted from an injury received in the course of his employment, the trial court granted TCICs motion for judgment non obstante veredicto. Freeman appealed, and the court of civil appeals reversed the trial courts judgment, holding that there was evidence to support the jurys verdict. The court of civil appeals also held that Boldings beneficiaries were entitled to the maximum statutory death benefits of $70 per week until the widow remarried in 1975. The widows share was $35 per week; the children received $35 per week. Upon remarriage, the widow was entitled to a lump sum payment equal to $35 weekly for two years and the children continued to receive $35 a week. 586 S.W.2d 172. We granted Freemans application for writ of error to consider whether the court of civil appeals correctly determined the amount of benefits payable to Freeman and the children upon Freemans remarriage.