Chisholm v. State Accident Insurance Fund

This workmen’s compensation case presents the question whether the 30-day time for appeal from a referee’s order (ORS 656.289) begins to run from the date of the original order or from the date of an amendment to the first order made by the referee within the original 30-day period.

The Workmen’s Compensation Board determined that the period ran from the date of the original order and thus it lacked jurisdiction to entertain the appeal. The circuit court on appeal from the board order reversed the board and held that the appeal period ran from the date of the correcting order. The state…