Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Brockman

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

In a Workmen’s Compensation case, the claimant, John C. Brockman, obtained a judgment against his employer’s insurance carrier and that company has appealed.

Its first point is that the court erred in refusing permission to file defendant’s first amended answer in which the company for the first time denied under oath that claimant filed his claim for compensation within six months after his injury or that he had good cause for failing to timely file his claim. Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 93 requires that such an amendment “must be filed not less than seven days before…