Jester v. Thompson

The defendant assigns as error the lack of jurisdiction of the Commissioner for the first congressional district to hear the cause, since the injury occurred in New Haven County and within the jurisdiction of the Commissioner for the third congressional district. The basic fact upon which this claim rests is an undisputed fact. Defendant’s course in not having made this claim until after the award, would have constituted a waiver of the claim were it within the power of any litigant to waive a jurisdictional point, or confer a jurisdictional power. Allen’s Appeal, 69 Conn. 702, 708, 38 Atl.…