Hawkins v. Safety Casualty Co.

This is a workmen’s compensation suit in which the trial court instructed a verdict for the respondent insurance company on the sole ground that the claimant failed to raise a fact issue as to “good cause” for not filing his claim with the Industrial Accident Board within the six months required by Sec. 4a of Art. 8307, Y. A. C. S. The judgment of the trial court denying recovery was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 204 S. W. (2d) 866.

The claimant, William M. Hawkins, who is the petitioner, sustained an accidental injury on July 3, 1945, while in the course of his employment in the…