Employers Insurance of Wausau v. Horton

OPINION

GRANT, Justice.

This is an appeal from two consolidated workers’ compensation suits in which the *679trial court rendered judgment for the worker, Vernon Dwayne Horton, against Employers Insurance of Wausau.

Wausau contends that the trial court denied it due process under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and under Article I, § 19 of the Texas Constitution by forcing Wausau to commence its case-in-chief at 7:52 p.m. to a jury that had already worked twelve hours that same day, by forcing Wausau to present its closing argument at 10:23 p.m. before a jury that had…