Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Soliz

POPE, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation case and concerns the application of the legislative plan outlined by Section’ 6a, Article 8307, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Stats. Texas Employers’ Insurance Association appealed from a judgment in favor of Bruno Soliz, the employee, in the amount of $3,250.40. The Association urges that the employee lost his right to proceed against the Association for compensation by reason of estoppel and the employee’s exercise of his statutory election to proceed against a third party by accepting a common law release, even though the release was subsequently…