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Continuing Problems Of Travel And Transportation., Leslie H. Williams Jr.

St. Mary's Law Journal

The Texas Workmen’s Compensation Act works to protect employees against the risk or hazard of performing their job and compensates that employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. In 1957, after an increasing number of travel-oriented injuries involving scope of employment, the legislature amended the Act to limit judicial interpretation. This amendment added subsection b to section 1 of article 8309 to clarify the rules created from recent caselaw. Section 1b reconciled and enumerated four exceptions to the common law rule that an injury which occurs during the use of public streets or highways while traveling to and …