Federal Underwriters Exchange v. Read

Mr. Judge Hickman

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

In the trial court Richard Read, the employee, recovered judgment against Federal Underwriters Exchange, the insurer, for compensation under our Workmen’s Compensation Law, Article 8306 et seq., and that judgment was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 142 S. W. (2d) 440.

By its first group of assignments, the insurer called into question the action of the trial court in permitting the employee to have the case reinstated on the docket of that court after he had voluntarily discontinued same in vacation and paid…