TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INS. ASS'N v. Portley

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which Jacob Portley, as plaintiff, recovered a judgment for benefits for total and permanent disability. That judgment was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 258 S.W. 2d 380.

The injury out of which the claim grew was alleged to have occurred on or about March 1, 1950, but claim for compensation was not filed until March 29, 1951. As good cause for his failure to file his claim within the six months period provided in the statute (Article 8307, sec. 4a, R.C.S.) and thereafter until he was severed from his employment on February 19, 1951, plaintiff…