Lockhart v. Industrial Commission

JACOBSON, Presiding Judge.

In this appeal by writ of certiorari from an award of the Industrial Commission, we are primarily asked to determine whether an industrial injury occurring in a sister state may properly be the subject matter of a petition to reopen. 1

In February, 1964, petitioner, Lloyd M. Lockhart, was employed by respondent Employees Distributing Company (Bashas Market) in their meat department where he sustained an industrial injury to his back as the result of lifting a box of meat. This claim was accepted by the Industrial Commission for medical treatment and compensation. In…