Texas Employers Ins. Ass'n v. Poe

The parties will be identified as in the trial court. Plaintiff, an injured employee, filed this case as an appeal from a workmen’s compensation award. He appeals from a take-nothing judgment based upon an adverse jury verdict.

The one point of error brought forward is whether or not an improper remark of defendant’s counsel requires a reversal.

During cross examination of plaintiff, defendant’s counsel asked the following question:

“After you filed your claim down before the Industrial Accident Board and they didn’t give yon anything, you filed your suit here in this court, didn’t you?”

Plaintiff…