Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Stigger

FISH, Justice.

In this worker’s compensation case, the facts giving rise to the appeal are not in dispute. The Industrial Accident Board awarded Stigger, the claimant, $2,377.62 in benefits. The carrier, Standard Fire, filed a timely suit in a county court at law of Dallas County to set aside the Board’s award. Stigger answered and counterclaimed for benefits. After jury trial, the court rendered judgment for Stigger on the verdict in the amount of $34,692.21.

Standard Fire urges on appeal that the trial court erred in two ways: first, in rendering a judgment in excess of its jurisdictional…