Agan v. UNION FOUNDRY CO., INC.

This is a workmen's compensation case.

The employee contends that, after he had been seriously burned by an accident arising out of his job and after he had been released by his physician to commence light work, the payment of his regular wages by his employer for the performance of alleged lighter work constituted "compensation" which tolled the running of the statute of limitations under §25-5-80 of the Code (1975). In part, that code section provides that the limitations shall not be effective until the expiration of one year from the time the last compensation payment was made to the…