Panzino v. Continental Can Company

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mountain, J.

Petitioner filed a claim for occupational hearing loss six years after retiring from his employment with respondent corporation. As the Workmen’s Compensation Act was then written, this time span exceeded the permissible period within which such a claim was required to be filed. Two months before his claim was heard, however, a statutory amendment abrogated the time limitation. The issue before us is whether the amendment applies and thus saves petitioner’s claim.

It was stipulated that petitioner, Louis Panzino, retired from respondent’s…