Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n v. Brock

(after stating the case as above).

While the declared purpose of the Workmen’s Compensation Law is that the compensation therein provided for shall be paid “from week to week” (article 8306, § 18), it authorizes the payment of such compensation in a lump sum “in special cases where in the judgment of the board (or court) manifest hardship and injustice would otherwise result.” Article 8306, § 15. It is insisted it did not appear from the pleading and proof that this was such a special case, and that the trial court therefore erred when he rendered judgment determining to the contrary and…