Calloway v. State Compensation Commissioner

Lively, Judge:

Petitioner seeks to compel the state compensation commissioner to grant him a hearing for compensation for an alleged injury received by him on September 24, 1929. The commissioner, after investigation, refused a hearing because the application had not been filed within sis months from the date of the injury.

Petitioner alleges that on the above date he was an employee of the Empire Coal & Coke Company in McDowell county, a subscriber to the workmen’s compensation fund, as a meat cutter in one of its stores; and while conveying some meat from the refrigerator to a cutting block…