Cook v. Compensation Commissioner

Woods, Judge:

James Cook, who, on December 21, 1929, had his left ankle crushed in a slate fall, was granted a 20% partial permanent disability rating, the payments under the award expiring July 10, 1931. After much importuning on the part of the claimant, beginning within the year following the last payment, the commissioner finally refused to consider a petition, and attached exhibits, filed on January 3, 1933, on the ground that bis jurisdiction in the premises was at an end. Citing Code 1931, 23-4-16. Thereupon, the present petition in mandamus was presented to this court, praying that the…