Hatch v. Black Diamond Coal Mining Co.

SIMPSON, Justice.

Certiorari to review a judgment in a workmen’s compensation case wherein the court denied compensation to the plaintiff on the ground that his claim was barred by the statute of limitation.

The suit was filed on September 3, 1948, on an accident alleged to have occurred February 14, 1943. The plaintiff sought to avoid the effect of the statute of limitation on the theory that in the early part of 1943 the defendant perpetrated a fraud on him in settling for his injury by-paying a cash sum of $500 and' promising him a lifetime job as a part of the consideration for the…