Court Opinion

ID: 9646577
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:03:24.207555+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:39.517904
License: Public Domain

POPE, Justice
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent. This is a suit for common law recovery of damages, and while it may be said that the insurer’s action did not accrue until the time stated in the majority opinion, the same may not *935be said of the injured employee’s claim. His action was not asserted against the third party until two years and nine months after his injury. The Legislature, as to workmen’s compensation, has said that good cause will excuse the late filing of a compensation claim. The Legislature has not made such an exception in the case of a common law third party action.
GREENHILL, C. J., joins in this dissent.