Charter Oak Fire Insurance Co. v. Square

OPINION

JAMES, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order sustaining a Plea in Abatement for want of jurisdiction. We reverse and remand.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which an insurance carrier has filed an original action to set aside an award of the Industrial Accident Board. This action was filed in the District Court of Ellis County, Texas, and styled, “Charter Oak Fire Insurance Co. a/k/a Travelers Insurance Co. v. Dorothy Jean Square.” Subsequent to the filing of the Plaintiff’s Original Petition, the Defendant Dorothy Jean Square filed her sworn “Plea in Abatement” alleging that…