Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n v. Mints

This case arose under the Workmen’s -Compensation Act (Rev. St. 1925, arts. 8306-8309). The appellant brought suit in the district court to set aside an award of the Industrial Accident Board in favor of Mrs. Mary Mints, mother of the deceased employee. Upon answers to special issues submitted to the jury in appellees’ favor, the district court entered judgment in her behalf, from which this appeal is prosecuted.

Appellant’s first proposition is that ap-pellees’ attorneys, who had been granted a portion of the award by the Industrial Accident Board, as authorized by the Compensation Act, were…