Tabor Motor Company v. Garrard

233 So.2d 811 (1970)

TABOR MOTOR COMPANY

v.

Sam GARRARD.

No. 45728.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 6, 1970.

Mitchell, McNutt & Bush, Wade H. Lagrone, Tupelo, for appellant.

Pyles & Tucker, Jackson, William Liston, Winona, for appellee.

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

This case involves a workmen's compensation claim for disability benefits, a statute limiting the period for filing a claim to two years after the "injury," and a latent injury. We hold that the claim period runs from the time compensable injury becomes reasonably apparent, not from the date of the accident only.

Sam Garrard, appellee, filed…