Buchanan v. Pankey

* Reporter's note: No application for rehearing had been filed in the Court of Civil Appeals. That court, on April 4, 1988, entered the following order: "[A]s a sanction for brief being late, if appellant is not successful on appeal, no rehearing may be accepted."

Appellant, Jack Buchanan, appeals from a summary judgment granted in favor of appellee, T.W. Pankey, in a workmen's compensation case.

The record shows that Buchanan was working for T.W. Pankey's commercial dairy as a "general farm laborer" at the time of his accident. His injury occurred while he was repairing a flat tire on a…