Jones v. Texas Indemnity Ins. Co.

The appeal is from a judgment sustaining a plea in abatement and dismissing the cause from the docket. The suit was an appeal from an alleged final ruling and decree of the Industrial Accident Board, and the plea in abatement presented the question of whether such board had ever made any final ruling or decree upon appellant’s claim.

On February 23,192S, White & Yarborough, attorneys, of Dallas, addressed a letter to the Industrial Accident Board, inclosing therewith a notice of injury, claim for compensation, affidavit of the claimant, and a contract between the attorneys and the appellant…