96 So. 626 | Ala. | 1923
The suit is by the widow of a deceased employee, and the certiorari is that at common law. Ex parte Central Iron Coal Co. (Ala. Sup.)
The provisions of the act, as to notice, are:
"Every injured employee or his representative shall within five days after the occurrence of an accident give or cause to be given to the employer written notice of the accident and the employee if he fails to give such notice, shall not be entitled to physician's or medical fees nor any compensation which may have accrued under the terms of this act, unless it can be shown that the party required to give such notice had been prevented from doing so by reason of physical or mental incapacity, other than minority, or fraud or deceit, or equal good reason, but no compensation shall be payable unless such written notice is given within ninety days after the occurrence of the accident, or where death results within ninety (90) days after the death." Gen. Acts 1919, § 19, p. 223.
Of "service and requisites of notice," it is said the same may be made "personally" upon the employer or any agent "upon whom a summons may be served in civil action, or by sending it by registered mail to the employer at the last-known residence or business place thereof within the State"; that a notice "substantially" in the form prescribed will be sufficient; and that "no variation from this form shall be material if the notice is sufficient to advise the employer that a certain employee, by name, received a specified injury in the course of his employment on or about a specified time, at or near a certain place specified." Gen. Acts 1919, § 20, pp. 223, 224; Ex parte Sloss-Sheffield Steel Iron Co.,
"* * * If notice of the accident has been given within the 90 days and death results thereafter from the accident, no further notice of death is required. In the present case, while no notice is averred as given, it is averred that proof of the accident was made, that $48 compensation was paid by defendant upon or for the accident. This under the allegations was paid within the 90 days allowed for notice, and is equivalent to alleging notice, for if the company received the proof and paid the compensation thereon it knew of the accident, and it was not necessary to give notice, and furthermore when they paid the compensation, they waived notice." State ex rel. Crookston Lumber Co. v. Dist. Court,
The appellant insists that recourse be had to the bill of exceptions to ascertain whether or not plaintiff's intestate's death was caused by reason of the accident received, within the terms of the Workmen's Compensation Act. It is held that where the recitals of special findings of fact are "too meager or omissive fully to inform the court [of review] in respect of the entire circumstances having relation to the point in contest, the bill of exceptions will be considered along with the special finding of facts." Ex parte L. N. R. Co.,
The writ of common-law certiorari is denied, and the judgment of the circuit court is accordingly affirmed.
Writ denied.
ANDERSON, C. J., and McCLELLAN and SOMERVILLE, JJ., concur.
