TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INSURANCE ASSOCIATION v. Fletcher

CHADICK, Chief Justice.

This is avenue case. The judgment of the trial court overruling a plea of privilege is affirmed.

Appellee, Jimmie A. Fletcher, brought a suit to set aside a settlement of a claim for Workmen’s Compensation made with his employer’s compensation insurance carrier, the appellant, Texas Employers’ Insurance Association. The insurer filed a plea of privilege which Fletcher controverted invoking the exception. of Sec. 7, Art. 1995, Vernon’s Ann.Texas St., on the ground that the insurer procured the settlement by fraud committed in Morris County where the suit was brought.

The…