Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Reavis

Eberhardt, Judge.

1. Compliance with the thirty-day notice provision of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Code § 114-303, is a necessary prerequisite to the payment of compensation. Where the only evidence of notice was that of a claimant who, having had a previous back injury for which compensation had been paid, and now claiming a further back injury testified: “[I] told Mr. Sticky [my supervisor] that I had to go to the doctor, I was hurting so in my back. And he asked me was this my old injury and I said, 'No, I didn’t think it was my old injury, I just had a hurting in it,’ and he gave me a…