Carbon Fuel Co. v. State Compensation Commissioner

Woods, Judge:

Petitioner seeks to invoke prohibition against payment, by the compensation commissioner, of an award, dated January 8, 1932, to John New, claiming in support of the writ that the commissioner’s jurisdiction over the claim bad long since expired, by virtue of the limitation set out in section 40, chapter 71, Acts 1929.

Claimant was injured in 1925; an award of 45% disability was entered in 1927, payments expiring thereunder May 20, 1929; an additional award of 5% was entered on October 3, 1929, expiring October 7, 1929; in February, 1931, claimant was sent before a doctor for an…