Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Dickson

OPINION

PRESLAR, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a workmen’s compensation case in which the jury awarded Appellee compensation benefits for seventy-six weeks for total incapacity and for permanent partial incapacity. We reverse and render.

Appellee’s injury occurred on March 17, 1968, and his claim for compensation was filed with the Industrial Accident Board on March 7, 1969. The sole questions for *656determination concern the proof of “good cause” for failure to timely file the claim. Under the provisions of Section 4a, Article 8307, Vernon’s Ann.Texas Civ.St., his right to…