Ross' Case

Petition under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. There was failure to comply with the statute requiring that an answer be filed. R. S„ Chap. 50, Sec. 32, as amended. This left the petition, analogously to the procedure in equity, to be taken as confessed on the well pleaded facts. Mitchell’s Case, 121 Maine, 455; Morin’s Case, 122 Maine, 338; McCollar’s Case, 122 Maine, 136. But it was not. On the contrary, apparently in the erroneous supposition that ah answer was in the file, the case proceeded to full hearing. In the opinion subsequently entered, the Chairman of the Industrial Accident…