Green v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.

Littlejohn, Justice.

The respondent, Wash Green, was employed by RaybestosManhattan, Inc., for a period of 21 years until discharged in June, 1965. Soon after his discharge he filed a claim under the Workmen’s Compensation Law for a back injury alleged to have occurred two years previously, in June, 1963, against his employer and its insurance carrier, United States Casualty Co,mpany.

The case came to be tried before the Hearing Commissioner (J. Dawson Addis), who, denied compensation, holding that the employee failed to give notice to his employer of an accident arising out of and in the…