Bird v. Industrial Commission

CASE, Judge.

This review by certiorari involves an Industrial Commission award which denied petitioner’s claim for compensation upon the basis that it was not timely filed. The facts necessary for a determination of the issue herein involved are:

In July of 1968 petitioner was employed by Hancock Kelley as a caterpillar operator. His duties required him to operate this tractor over rough and rocky terrain. After he had been working for some two weeks he began experiencing pains in his low back and in both legs. Because of these complaints petitioner consulted a Doctor Davidson in Kingman,…