Alaska Workmen's Compensation Board v. Marsh

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

The question presented in this appeal is whether the Alaska Workmen’s Compensation Board correctly refused to entertain an applicant’s claim for compensation. In this instance the board refused to act because a civil action, based upon the same occurrence as the claim for workmen’s compensation, was pending in the superior court. The appellants urge that the board can properly withhold action, and thus they seek reversal of the superior court’s order remanding the case to the board for determination of appellee’s workmen’s compensation claim. Because of the amount of…