Scott v. Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n

SPEER, Justice.

This appeal involves the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 8306 et seq., and especially section 4a of Article 8307, Vernon’s Tex.Civ.St, relating to “good cause” shown for failure to file claim within statutory time.

John Scott sued Texas Employers’ Insurance Association in a district court of Wichita County, to set aside an adverse award made by the Industrial Accident Board, and for compensation for an accidental injury sustained while in the course of his employment with Wichita Falls Foundry and Machine Company, on about May 2nd, 1936.

Plaintiff’s petition…