Ferguson v. Industrial Commission

I respectfully dissent from the majority, and believe that the Court of Common Pleas was correct in permitting the amendment, and that the judgment of the Court of Appeals in affirming the Common Pleas should be affirmed.

I disagree with the view that the case of State, ex rel. Bernhardt, v. Industrial Commission, 127 Ohio St., 582, 190 N. E., 224, controls here. The factual situation in that case was different. There the claimant, having received compensation for an injury to his spine resulting from a fall from a ladder, sought, more than two years after the fall, to modify the award to get…