Travelers Insurance Company v. Echols

CORNELIUS, Justice.

This is a workmen’s compensation suit in which appellee recovered benefits for partial incapacity. The question to be decided is whether the jury findings of good cause for appellee’s failure to timely file his claim for compensation may be sustained.

The special issues and jury answers on the question of good cause were as follows :

“SPECIAL ISSUE NO. 11. Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that within six months from the date of such injury plaintiff believed through continuing negotiations with .Travelers Insurance Company that his claim for compensation was…