Sandlick Coal Co. v. Hughes

CLAY, Commissioner.

In this Workmen’s Compensation case the only issue raised by the appellant employer is whether or not the lower Court had jurisdiction of the appeal from the Workmen’s Compensation Board, because it was not filed within 20 days after the rendition of the Board’s order. Appellee cross-appeals and asks us to consider a former judgment involving the same controversy.

In April 1948 the Workmen’s Compensation Board made an award. The following May appellee moved to re-open the case, which was overruled. Thereafter on appeal to the Letcher Circuit Court, in January 1949, a…