39 Ga. App. 668 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1929
This ease grows out of an injury to G. P. Clark received while he was employed by the commissioners of roads and revenue of Macon county. Under the workmen’s compensation act the county carried insurance for its eraployees. On August 15, 1928, Clark filed a claim for damages against the county and against the Maryland Casualty Company as insurance carrier. The record shows that he received an injury to his hand on April 27, 1927, but that, not considering his injury of any “serious consequences,” no claim for compensation was filed “within twelve months from the date of the-injury.” He claimed that he did not know the extent of the injury “until October, 1927, and urged that the case be heard notwithstanding he had not made application within one year from the date of the injury.” T. E. Whitaker, the commissioner who heard the case, dismissed the claim, “for the peason that his claim was not filed witbip twelve months from the
Judgment affirmed.