Weinberg v. American General Fire & Casualty Co.

HUTCHINSON, Justice.

This is a worker’s compensation case in which the trial court rendered summary judgment for the insurance carrier on the ground that the appeal of the appellant, Ben J. Weinberg, from the Industrial Accident Board was not timely filed in the district court.

Appellant filed his petition in the district court on August 17,1978, against the appel-lee, American General Fire and Casualty Company, as the carrier of a policy of worker’s compensation insurance for his employer, Bogart Industries, alleging that he had sustained an injury to his back while in the course and scope of…