Hicks v. Standard Accident Insurance

This is a writ of error to review the judgment of the superior court affirming, on appeal, an award of the Department of Industrial Delations denying compensation and dismissing the claim. It appears from the judgment excepted to that on August 5, 1926, one Hicks received an injury while working for a named company subject to the provisions of the workmen’s compensation statute, and as a result of that injury he died on December 28, 1932; that no claim for compensation because of such injury was ever filed by Hicks; that on May 3, 1933, and within one year from the date of Hicks’ death, a…