Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Stott

OPINION

OSBORN, Justice.

Texas Employers’ Insurance Association appeals a lump sum award of attorney’s fees in a workers’ compensation death case in which it filed an interpleader and tendered accrued payments into the registry of the court. We reverse and remand.

Texas Employers’ Insurance Association appealed from an award of the Industrial Accident Board “awarding compensation death benefits to the said certain designat*574ed beneficiaries under the Worker’s Compensation Law of the State of Texas.” It named as defendants Mary Stott, who claimed to be a common law wife, and Garnett Stott,…