Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. v. Shaw

OPINION

ELLIS, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order granting a plea in abatement. Appellant, Lumber-mens Mutual Casualty Co., filed an original petition in a worker’s compensation case in Harris County. Appellee and claimant, Strather S. Shaw, answered appellant’s suit with a general denial and a plea in abatement. 1 The plea in abatement was granted and appellant’s case was dismissed with prejudice. We affirm.

Appellant brings one ground of error on appeal. It alleges that the trial court erred in granting appellee’s plea in abatement because appellant had the right, under Tex.…