SIKES v. FORT MYERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

No. 34940.

191 So.2d 265 (1966)

Herbert Randolph SIKES, Petitioner, v. FORT MYERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Maryland Casualty Company and Florida Industrial Commission, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied November 17, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Halley B. Lewis, Fort Myers, for petitioner.

John McQuigg of Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings, Glos & Evans, Tampa, Patrick H. Mears, Tallahassee, and J. Franklin Garner. Lakeland, for respondents.


DREW, Justice.

This cause is before us on a petition for certiorari to review an order of the full commission reversing an order of the deputy. The pivotal question is the existence vel non of jurisdiction in the Florida Industrial Commission. At the time of his injury on September 8, 1962, the claimant was employed in a dredging operation in which his employer was clearing land and cutting canals for the Cape Coral Land Development Corporation. The canals were begun...

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