Lucas v. Ford Motor Co.

This is an appeal by the employer from two orders of the department of labor and industry modifying orders entered by the deputy commissioner and remanding the proceedings to him for taking further testimony. On its review the department reversed the deputy’s orders dismissing each of the petitions on the ground that in each instance an award of death benefits was barred since the petitions were filed more than 300 weeks after the date of the accident.

In September, 1923, Oscar L. Lucas, at that time an unmarried man employed by the defendant company, sustained a second degree caustic soda…