TEXAS EMPLOYERS'INSURANCE ASSOCIATION v. Maynard

ARCHER, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment based on a jury verdict setting aside a compromise settlement agreement of a workmen’s compensation claim theretofore entered into between appellant, Texas Employers’ Insurance Association, and appellee, Billy Ray Maynard. The agreement was duly approved by the Industrial Accident Board.

The basis for setting aside the settlement was that Dr. D. C. Enloe, a general practitioner in Sherman, acting as agent for appellant, operated on Billy Ray Maynard to repair a hernia sustained in the course of his employment by Sherman Foundry Company…