American Casualty Co. of Reading v. All Florida Surety Co.

DREW, Chief Justice.

This case presents the question of whether or not the Florida Industrial Commission can review a deputy commissioner’s compensation order in a workmen’s compensation case when the application for review was filed with the deputy commissioner within twenty days but was filed with the commission at Tallahassee over twenty days after copies of the compensation order were mailed to the parties at their last known address. The commission is without jurisdiction to review an order under these circumstances.

On October 7, 1955, the deputy commissioner mailed copies of his order to…