HUGHES MOTOR CO. v. WARNER

HUGHES MOTOR CO. v. WARNER
1940 OK 242
102 P.2d 594
187 Okla. 255
Case Number: 29423
Decided: 05/07/1940
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

HUGHES MOTOR CO. et al.
v.
WARNER et al.

Syllabus

¶0 WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION--Order or award of trial commissioner appealed to Industrial Commission en banc becomes interlocutory and will not be reviewed by Supreme Court.
Section 3, chap. 72, S. L. 1939, authorizes an appeal from an order or award of a trial ,commissioner to the State Industrial Commission en banc, and where such appeal has been perfected, the order or award theretofore made becomes interlocutory and will not be reviewed by this court, since it is the duty of the State Industrial Commission to pass upon the appeal so taken to it and to make a final order or award which may be brought to this court on review.

Original proceeding in the Supreme Court by the Hughes Motor Company and its insurance carrier to obtain review of award which had been made by a trial commissioner and thereafter appealed to the State Industrial Commission and which appeal had not been disposed of by said tribunal. Dismissed.

Butler & Rinehart, of Oklahoma City, for petitioners.
Williams, Cowan & Benedum, of Norman, and Mac Q. Williamson, Atty. Gen., for respondents.

PER CURIAM.

¶1 This is an original proceeding in this court brought by Hughes Motor Company and its insurance carrier, hereafter referred to as petitioners, to obtain a review of an award which was made by a trial commissioner in favor of Buster Warner and which petitioners appealed to the State Industrial Commission en banc. The record shows that the appeal which was taken to the commission en banc in the manner authorized by section 3, chap. 72, S. L. 1939, has not been disposed of by that tribunal and is still pending before it. The present proceeding is therefore in effect one to obtain a review of an interlocutory order. This court reviews only final orders and awards of the State Industrial Commission. McCallum & Forber v. Owens, 184 Okla. 66, 85 P.2d 411; Marland Refining Co. v. Bivins, 135 Okla. 14, 273 P. 212. It follows from what has been said that the present proceeding in this court is premature and it becomes necessary to dismiss the same. The dismissal of this proceeding, however, shall in no way prejudice the rights of either party in the proceeding pending before the State Industrial Commission or in any proceeding which may hereafter be perfected from any final order or award made by the State Industrial Commission.

¶2 Dismissed.