Beach v. Union Gas & Electric Co.

The gas company was a self-insurer. After the Industrial Commission had denied the claimant’s application for compensation, the claimant, on February 13, 1931, filed his petition in the Common Pleas Court naming the commission as a party defendant. It was not until March 7, 1933, more than two years thereafter, that the claimant, discovering his mistake, filed an amended petition in which, for the first time, he made the gas company, the employer, a party defendant and caused a summons to be issued to it. The sole question to be determined is whether the claimant’s action against the gas…