Case Name: GEORGE HENDRICKSON v. PUBLIC SERVICE RAILWAY COMPANY
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1915-06-07
Citations: 87 N.J.L. 366
Docket Number: 
Parties: GEORGE HENDRICKSON v. PUBLIC SERVICE RAILWAY COMPANY.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 87
Pages: 366–367

Head Matter:
GEORGE HENDRICKSON v. PUBLIC SERVICE RAILWAY COMPANY.
Submitted March 18, 1915—
Decided June 7, 1915.
Under the supplement of 1913 to the Workmen’s Compensation act, the petition must be actually filed with the clerk within one year after the accident; it is not enough to present it to the judge.
On certiorari to the Burlington Common Pleas Court.
Before Justices Swayze, Parker and Kalis on.
Eor the plaintiff, Harold B. Wells.
Eor the defendant-prosecutor, Leonard J. Tynan.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Swayze, J.
The plaintiff was injured May 9th, 1913. His petition was presented to the judge of the Common Pleas on May 8th, 1914, and the judge ordered it filed with the clerk of the court. It was not actually filed until May 13th. The statute (Pamph. L. 1913, pp. 302, 314) bars the plaintiff's claim "unless within one year after the accident one of the parties shall .have filed a petition for adjudication of compensation." It is now urged by the plaintiff that the presentation to the judge Aras equiwdent to filing. It is enough to say that the judge and the attorney for the plaintiff did not so treat it. The judge made an order that it he filed Avitli the clerk of the court, and the attorney complied with the order five days later. The plaintiff's right to compensation is therefore barred by express statutory enactment. The judgment .for the plaintiff must bo set aside, Avith costs.