SMITH v. STATE INDUS. COMM'N

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SMITH v. STATE INDUS. COMM'N
1930 OK 259
288 P. 347
143 Okla. 172
Case Number: 21214
Decided: 05/20/1930
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

SMITH & LESLIE et al.
v.
STATE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION et al.

Syllabus

¶0 Master and Servant--Workmen's Compensation Law--Time for Proceedings to Review Awards or Decisions.
Section 7297, C. O. S. 1921, as amended by section 1, ch. 30, Session Laws 1929, 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.

Original action by Smith & Leslie and Employers Liability Assurance Corporation to review an award by the State Industrial Commission to Robert H. Cunningham. Dismissed.

A. C. Saunders, for petitioners.
J. Berry King, Atty. Gen., Robert D. Crowe, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Wilcox & Swank, for respondents.

PER CURIAM.

¶1 This is an original action in this court to review an award of the State Industrial Commission made on the 3rd day of March, 1930, in favor of the respondent Robert H. Cunningham, claimant below, copies of which award were sent to all parties affected thereby on the 3rd day of March, 1930. The petition to review was filed in this court on the 3rd day of April, 1930, 31 days after copies of the award were sent to the interested parties.

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