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TAMEZ v. TEXAS EMP. INS. ASS'N

No. 20274.

599 S.W.2d 115 (1980)

Cruz O. TAMEZ, Appellant, v. TEXAS EMPLOYERS' INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

April 16, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rupert M. Pollard, Dallas, for appellant.

Catherine A. Gerhauser, Burford & Ryburn, Dallas, for appellee.

Before GUITTARD, C. J., and AKIN and STOREY, JJ.

AKIN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a workers' compensation claim because notice of appeal was not timely filed with the Industrial Accident Board. Plaintiff contends that the dismissal was error because notice mailed on the twentieth day after the date of the Industrial Accident Board's award and received by the Board on the twenty-first day, was timely filed. We cannot agree and accordingly, affirm.

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