Greenwalt v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

The question presented by this appeal may be. stated thus: May an employee maintain an action against his employer for the wilfull and fraudulent or negligent failure of the employer to file a claim for workmen’s compensation, where the employer agreed to file the claim for the employee, and where the claim was later filed by the employee and denied by the Industrial Commission because the statutory period of time within which the claim could be filed had expired?

There is no doubt that under the laws of this state a claim for workmen’s compensation must be filed within two years after an…