Texaco Inc. v. Texas Employment Commission

EVANS, Justice.

Appellant, Texaco, Inc., seeks judicial review of a decision of the Texas Employment Commission allowing a claim for unemployment benefits filed by appellee Richard Andrus, a retired employee of Texaco. In trial to the court without a jury, upon stipulated facts, the Commission’s decision was affirmed. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

The record shows that claimant was employed by Texaco from 1933 until his retirement in 1968. In 1937 Texaco adopted an optional “Group Life Insurance and Pension Plan” which provided for automatic retirement of all participating…