Kauffman
Kauffman v. Industrial Accident Commission
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Petitioner has applied to this court for an order setting aside the order by which the court denied his application for a writ of review.
On December 6, 1917, petitioner filed with the Industrial Accident Commission an application for adjustment of his claim against Federal Drilling Company, a corporation, and London & Lancashire Indemnity Company of America (a corporation) , by which he sought to obtain compensation for disability resulting from an injury received by petitioner on the tenth day of March, 1916, while in the employ of Federal Drilling Company. No application had been filed by petitioner within six months from the date of the injury; but he claimed, and now claims, that at the time of filing his application he was still entitled to make an original application for “further disability” caused by and suffered from the original injury, upon the ground that such original injury had in fact caused further disability within the meaning of the provisions of the statute to which we shall refer.
Section 16 of the Workmen’s Compensation, Insurance and Safety Act, approved May 26, 1913, (Stats. 1913, p. 287), as amended in 1915, (Stats 1915, p. 1085), so far as applicable to…