Texas Employers' Insurance Ass'n v. Matejek

SHARPE, Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case in which the sole issue is whether appellee established good cause for failure to file a claim for compensation within six months from the date of his injury. Canadian Gulf Line was the employer, A. J. Matejek, ap-pellee, the employee, and Texas Employer’s Insurance Association, appellant, the insurance carrier.

In the trial court appellee recovered judgment, based upon a jury verdict, for $11,-956.00, representing 366 %th weekly installments of $35.00 each, beginning October 9, 1961, redeemable by lump sum payment in said amount.

The jury…