Leadon v. Truck Ins. Exchange

MONTEITH, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal in a workmen’s compensation suit, brought by appellant, War-dell Leadon, in the District Court of Harris County, to set aside an award of the Industrial Accident Board.

Appellant alleged that he had previously filed a similar suit, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, seeking recovery in the same allegations as in this suit except that he had alleged in the suit in the Federal Court a diversity of citizenship as grounds for jurisdiction and that the suit in the Federal Court had been dismissed in March, 1952. The…