Crane Enamelware Co. v. Dotson

This is a compensation suit in which the trial court awarded Dotson $6 per week for three hundred weeks. The company has appealed and assigned numerous errors.

By the second assignment of error it is insisted that the trial court was in error in awarding petitioner a recovery because he did not give the company thirty days' written notice of the injury, as provided in section 22 of the Workmen's Compensation Act (Pub. Acts 1919, chapter 123).

Dotson testified that on August 6, 1924, while lifting some heavy crates, he strained or wrenched his side receiving a sharp pain. It was near the close…