Kincannon v. State Comp. Comm'r, (No. 6596)
| Court | Supreme Court of West Virginia |
| Writing for the Court | WOODS, P. |
| Citation | 107 W.Va. 533 |
| Docket Number | (No. 6596) |
| Decision Date | 10 September 1929 |
| Parties | Charles Kincannon v. State Compensation Commissioner |
107 W.Va. 533
Charles Kincannon
v.
State Compensation Commissioner
Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
Submitted September 1, 1929.
Decided September 10, 1929.
[107 W.Va. 533]
1. Walker v. Compensation Commissioner, Approved and Applied.
Syllabus in Walker v. State Compensation Commissioner, 107 W. Va. 531, decided contemporaneously herewith, approved and applied. (p. 535).
[107 W.Va. 534]
2. Workmen's Compensation Act Workman's Compensation Act Being Remedial Should be Liberally Construed With View to Accomplish its Purpose and Promote Justice.
The Workmen's Compensation Act being remedial should be liberally construed with a view to accomplish its purpose and promote justice. (p. 535).
Appeal from Order of Compensation Commissioner.
Proceeding under the Workmen's Compensation Commission and others. From an order of Compensation Commissioner as to payments, claimant appeals.
Reversed.
England & Ritchie, for appellant.
Howard B. Lee, Attorney General, and R. Dennis Steed, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
Woods, President:
Charles Kincannon, who has received compensation on the basis of a fifty per cent. disability from the Workmen's Compensation Fund, appeals from the action of the Commissioner refusing to re-open his claim for additional compensation.
From the record before us, it would seem that the claimant is totally disabled; yet the two Commissioners who have had this case before them have consistently maintained that a further consideration of the claim was barred by reason of a certain writing, executed by claimant over two years ago, purporting to release and discharge the Workmen's Compensation Fund and the Commissioner from payment of any further or other sums, in consideration of a "lump sum" settlement on the $610.26 still due him at the time under the then existing award. Informal demands for a total permanent disability award having been repeatedly ignored for the above stated reason, the claimant, on July 9, 1929, filed a formal petition, which was also denied. It is from this action that the present appeal is taken.
The Attorney General, as attorney for the Commissioner, insists that any right of appeal that the claimant might have had has been barred by...
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State ex rel. McKenzie v. Smith, No. 29645.
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