Court Opinion

ID: 9689137
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 18:21:28.024309+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:45.380128
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ON REHEARING
BRADLEY, Judge.
In its application for rehearing, the respondent argues that our decision has in effect created a new type of supervisory jurisdiction in the circuit courts concerning matters of workmen’s compensation. We do not accept this premise. Our decision does not say that the trial court is to supervise this matter. The trial court is not called upon to do anything on its own ini*464tiative. Only when the circumstances causing suspension have changed and are brought to the attention of the court, or the condition continues to exist which caused the suspension and is brought to the court’s attention, will the trial court be required to act; which means only that the action presently is in fieri until the circumstance causing it to be so is changed.
Applicant further asserts that we should impose a thirty day period in which the employee could submit to the surgery. There is no time limit prescribed in Title 26, Section 293 of the Alabama Code. Section 293 provides that payments will be suspended during the time of the refusal, nothing more. It is not the place of this court to draft into statutes arbitrary time limits when the legislature has not seen fit to do so. In interpreting a statute of this kind, we can be guided only by the standard of reasonableness, and the facts of each case will be determinative of that issue.
Opinion Extended.
Application for rehearing overruled.
WRIGHT, P. J., and HOLMES, J., concur.