Norton v. Standard Coosa-Thatcher Company

This is a workman’s compensation case in which the employer filed a plea in abatement setting up the Statute of Limitations of one year for bringing suit. The employee demurred to this plea and his demurrer was overruled by the Chancellor. The plea of the Statute of Limitations was sustained. Able briefs have been filed and excellent arguments heard and we now have the matter for disposition.

In August of 1956, the appellant sued the appellees in the law court of Hamilton County for compensation and based his cause of action on disability occasioned by an occupational disease. Apparently the…