Travelers Ins. v. Kelly

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment for compensation in a suit filed by appellant as an appeal from an award of the Texas Industrial Accident Board. Other points were pressed by appellant in- the trial court, but the point mainly labored there was that appellant and appellee had, with the approval of the board, made and carried out a final and binding settlement which ended the board’s jurisdiction over the claim and deprived it of authority to make an award. Appellee prevailed below upon the argument .that, though the parties with the board’s approval had actually…