TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INSURANCE ASSOCIATION v. Ham

BOYD, Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case. Texas Employers’ Insurance Association appeals from a judgment in favor of H. F. Ham for compensation for total and permanent disability, resulting from injuries received on November 18, 1957.

Appellant contends that the trial court was in error in striking its defense of the failure of appellee to file his claim for compensation within the statutory period; that the court erred in failing to grant appellant’s motion for continuance which was filed following the court’s action in striking the pleading; and that the court erred in refusing…