Employer's Reinsurance Corp. v. Brock

LESLIE, Justice.

This suit arises under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Rev. St. 1925, art. 8306 et seq., as amended), and from a lump-sum judgment in favor of the employee Joe Brock, the appeal is prosecuted by the insurance company. The facts material to the disposition of the appeal will be stated in the course of the opinion.

*437The suit was filed March 21, 1933, and the defendant was alleged to he “a corporation operating under the laws of the State of Missouri, and engaged in writing Workmen’s Compensation insurance in the State of Texas under and hy virtue of a permit issued to it as…