Johnson v. Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n

We are construing the Workers’ Compensation Act and the legislature has mandated that it be given a liberal construction. This makes it different from the cases relied on by the majority as controlling authority in this case, which involve the Rules of Civil Procedure. As set out in the majority opinion, Article 8307, sec. 5b of the Workers’ Compensation Act is controlling here. Cases construing the Rules of Civil Procedure would be analogous except for the fact that in construing Section 5b we *839are doing so under a legislative mandate set out in the Workers’ Compensation Act that it shall be…