Gulf Coast Drilling & Exploration Co. v. Permenter

214 So.2d 601 (1968)

GULF COAST DRILLING & EXPLORATION COMPANY and Aetna Casualty & Surety Company

v.

Henry PERMENTER.

No. 44969.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 7, 1968.

James A. Becker, Jr., Watkins & Eager, Jackson, for appellants.

William Harold Odom, Maxey & Clark, Laurel, for appellee.

INZER, Justice:

This is a Workmen's Compensation case. The only questions to be determined on appeal are whether circuit courts have the power to dismiss appeals made from the Mississippi Workmen's Compensation Commission for failure to follow the court's rules governing such appeals and whether in this case,…