Texas State Highway Department v. Pritchett

This is a workman’s compensation case in which the sole question for decision here is that of the jurisdiction of the trial court. That court overruled petitioner’s plea to its jurisdiction, and upon a jury verdict rendered judgment in favor of respondent for total, permanent disability in a lump sum, which judg*385ment was reformed in a particular not material here, and as reformed was affirmed. 283 S.W. 2d 796.

Acting under authority of an Act of 1937, 45th Legislature, Chapter 502 (Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes, Art. 6674s), petitioner, Texas State Highway Department, is self insurer of its…