Yazoo Manufacturing Co. v. Schaffer

This is a workmen’s compensation claim. The attorney-referee and a majority of the members of the Commission determined that the claim filed by the workman on March 20, 1961, and later amended on October 31, 1962, was barred by the statute of limitations set out in the Workmen’s Compensation law, both as to the one-year statute, Mississippi Code Annotated section 6998-27 (1952), and the two-year statute, Mississippi Code Annotated section 6998-18 (1952). The claim was dismissed by the attorney-referee upon the motion of appellee; no testimony was introduced. An appeal to the circuit court…