Case Name: COLUMBIA CHEMICAL CO. v. EMMONS
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1922-12-20
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 185
Docket Number: No. 665
Parties: COLUMBIA CHEMICAL CO. v. EMMONS
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 185–185

Head Matter:
No. 138
COLUMBIA CHEMICAL CO. v. EMMONS
Ohio Court of Appeals, Summit County
No. 665.
Dec. 20, 1922
INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE — (1) Appeal — (2> Limitation of time. Workman’s Compensation,
Attorneys — Dustin, McKeehan, Merrick, Arter & Stewart and Ashley M. Van Duzer, for plaintiff in error; Payer, Winch, Minshall & Karch, M. C. Harrison, Chas. N. Krieg and S. C. Miller, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
PARDEE, J.
Epitomized Opinion
Jennie Emmons filed with the Industrial Commis sion an application for an allowance of claim for death of husband from gas leaking from a flue in the factory. This not being allowed, she filed an appeal in the Common Pleas. Two petitions were filed which were dismissed. She secured a verdict but the time limitation for filing an appeal had expired. The Chemical company claimed that she was barred and the court had no jurisdiction.
Held:
1. The statute requires the informal appeal to be filed and does not require the petition to be filed within the limited time.
2. The proceeding -to determine liability under the law is not a civil action; jurisdiction attaches on filing of appeal; and it then proceeds like a civil action, and the court can give extension of rule, time to file pleading, as in other cases.