R.L. Manning Co. v. Millsap

THOMAS, Justice.

The only question to be dealt with in this case is that of the jurisdiction of the district court in a worker’s compensation case. The case is unusual, if not unique, in that an ex-employee received an additional award for a job-related injury because the clerk of the district court became weary of entertaining complaints from the ex-employee about the inadequacy of his compensation for the injury. The Worker’s Compensation Act contemplates neither such a result nor the procedure by which it occurred. We hold that the district court which entered the award did not have…