MILBY-DOW COAL MINING CO. v. STATE INDUS. COMM'N

MILBY-DOW COAL MINING CO. v. STATE INDUS. COMM'N
1928 OK 624
271 P. 237
133 Okla. 90
Case Number: 19730
Decided: 10/23/1928
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

MILBY-DOW COAL MINING CO.
v.
STATE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al.

Syllabus

¶0 Master and Servant--Workmen's Compensation Law--Time for Filing Action to Review Award.
Section 7297, C. O. S. 1921, as amended by Laws of 1923, ch. 61, sec. 8, provides for a review in the Supreme Court from an award or decision of the State Industrial Commission, and under such provision said action must be filed in this court within 30 days after notice of the award or decision of the Industrial Commission has been sent to the parties affected, and unless the petition for review is filed within 30 days after such notice, this court does not have jurisdiction to review the same, and the action will be dismissed.

Fuller, Porter & Fuller, for petitioner.
Edwin Dabney, Atty. Gen., and Ralph G. Thompson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for State Industrial Commission.
Harris & Lackey, for respondent John Piwawacyk.

PER CURIAM.

¶1 This is an original action in this court to review an award of the State Industrial Commission. The award of which the petitioner complains was made August 10, 1928, and copies thereof sent to all of the parties affected thereby on the 11th day of August, 1928. The petition for review was filed in this court September 11, 1928, 31 days after the copies of the award were sent to the interested parties.

¶2 Under the provision of section 7297, C. O. S. 1921, as amended by section 8, ch. 61, Session Laws 1923, an award or decision of the State Industrial Commission becomes final and conclusive upon all questions within its jurisdiction between the parties, unless within 30 days after copy of such award or decision has been sent by the Commission to the parties affected, an action is commenced in the Supreme Court to review such award or decision, and where action is not commenced in this court to review the award or decision within 30 days after a copy of such award or decision has been sent to the parties affected, this court is without jurisdiction to review the award or decision made. Knowles v. Whitehead,