PETROLEUM CASUALTY COMPANY v. Smith

NORVELL, Justice.

This is a workman’s compensation case. The insurance carrier, Petroleum Casualty Company, seeks to avoid payment of the award for total and permanent disability on the ground that appellee, Quilla E. Smith made a false representation in his application for employment with Humble Pipe Line Company.

In 1929, when Smith was sixteen years of age, he suffered what appellant describes as a minor accident which resulted in a serious injury to his back. He was incapacitated for a period of approximately six months. Some fifteen years later, in August, 1944, Smith made application for…