Cook v. Home Depot

WALLER,

Chief Justice, dissenting:

¶ 12. Because I would hold that Cook took sufficient action to toll the statute of limitations on his workers’ compensation claim, I would reverse the Court of Appeals and the Rankin County Circuit Court and remand to the Commission for further proceedings. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent.

¶ 18. Vardaman Dunn, in his oft-cited treatise on workers’ compensation law, said, “The humanitarian objectives of compensation laws should not be defeated by over-emphasis on technicalities or by putting form above substance.” Dunn, Vardaman S., Mississippi Workmen’s…