General Motors Corp. v. Deaton

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

It is the contention of counsel for the plaintiff in error that as the injury on which the award was based occurred on August 26, 1949, and as no claim was ever made for an injury occurring on this date until the second hearing before the board on August 29, 1950, the claim is barred because not filed within one year as provided by Code § 114-305. There is no dispute but that the injury for which the claimant sought to obtain compensation was that resulting from an accident in 1949 when he contended .that he slipped on gasoline spilled over the floor, and…