Whitis v. O. P. Link Handle Co.

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Luther Whitis appeals from a judgment affirming an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which denied his claim for compensation on the ground that the claim had not been filed within one year after the cessation of voluntary payments, as required by KRS 342.185 and 342.270

Whitis was injured early in January 1961 and was off work until January 30, a period of three weeks. His employer’s insurance carrier gave him a check, early in February, constituting compensation for three weeks’ temporary total disability. Thereafter nothing happened until June 1963, when Whitis…