R. L. Ladwig v. The Travelers Insurance Company

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a workmen’s compensation suit entered for defendant on the ground that plaintiff had not proved, as required by law, that, within six months from the date of the claimed accident, he had filed his claim for compensation with the Industrial Accident Board of the State of Texas.

These are the facts. The Standard Form Employer’s First Report of Injury, signed “West Texas Drilling Co. by R. L. Ladwig”, was sent to the Industrial Accident Board March 4, 1955. On November 6, 1956, plaintiff first filed with the Industrial Accident Board a…