Bounds v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COM'R

How courts have described this case

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• “ ‘The word “shall”, in the absence of language in the statute showing a contrary intent on the part of the legislature, should be afforded a mandatory connotation.’ ”
• “It has been held repeatedly by this Court that the right to workmen’s compensation benefits is based wholly on statutes, in no sense based on the common law; [and] that such statutes are sui generis and controlling[.]”

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