Watson v. State Compensation Commissioner

Woods, Jud&e :'

Bazz Watson, upon the compensation commissioner’s refusal to entertain a claim, which arose in 1921, on the ground of an alleged non-compliance with the statute requiring such claims to be filed within six months after injury, resorts to mandamus. He seeks to invoke this extraordinary writ on the assumption that he had substantially complied with the statute, citing Culurides v. Ott, 78 W. Va. 696, 90 S. E. 270.

This Court, in the case of Poccardi v. Ott, 83 W. Va. 166, 98 S. E. 69, 70, held that to entitle an applicant to partici pate in tbe workmen’s compensation fund be must…