Walker v. Texas Employers' Insurance Association

The opinion handed down in this case by the Court on May 9, 1956 is withdrawn and the following is substituted therefor:

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case in which petitioner, James 0. Walker, recovered a trial court judgment against respondent, Texas Employers’ Insurance Association. The Court of Civil Appeals reversed the judgment and remanded the case for retrial. 284 S.W. 2d 795.

Reversal by the Court of Civil Appeals was predicated solely on a statement by a witness which that court found to be so highly prejudicial that, in spite of an instruction by the trial judge to the jury not to…