Williams v. Furniture Land

SMITH, Justice,

for the Court:

The issue before this Court is whether Claimant Edna Williams timely filed a petition for review of the amended order of the administrative judge with the Workers’ Corn-pensation Commission. We find that the petition was timely filed.

There is no dispute that the time limit for filing a petition for review is twenty (20) days. Miss.Code Ann. § 71-3-47 (1972) provides that a party has twenty days in which to file a petition for review. Procedural Rule 10 of the Commission also allows twenty days for filing of a petition of review. Caselaw is equally clear that if…