Wallace v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the judgment of the district court in favor of the employee has been reversed by the court of civil appeals on the ground that the district court erred in refusing to grant the insurer’s motion for a medical examination of the employee by a doctor selected by the insurer, as provided in Art. 8307, Sec. 4, Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. 223 S. W. (2d) 528.

The petitioner was a negro laborer employed by C. A. Turner Construction Company, which carried workmen’s compensation insurance with the respondent. He was injured on June 12, 1947, and filed his suit…