DeVito v. Uniroyal, Inc.

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

The employee, Vincent DeVito (DeVito), appeals from a decree of the Workers’ Compensation Commission dismissing his two original petitions for compensation. The commission held that it lacked jurisdiction to consider the petitions. We affirm.

The pertinent facts of this case stretch back some forty years, to May 30, 1944. On that date, the employee became incapacitated as a result of a strained right wrist referrable to his employment with the United States Rubber Company (now the employer Uniroyal, Inc.). As evidenced by a preliminary agreement of June 17, 1944,…