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      "LUTHER ESTEP, Appellant, v. JANLER PLASTIC MOLD CORPORATION, Appellee."
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        "text": "MR. JUSTICE DAVIS\ndelivered the opinion of the court:\nThis case asserts a common-law action for injuries suffered by a minor while employed by the defendant corporation under the Illinois Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 48, par. 138.1 et seq.) The minor was 16 years of age when he was injured, and after a guardian was appointed, a rejection of workmen\u2019s compensation benefits was filed on the minor\u2019s behalf. This suit was then brought in the circuit court of Cook County. That court granted the defendant\u2019s motion to strike or dismiss the plaintiff\u2019s amended complaint, and the appellate court affirmed (11 Ill. App. 3d 551). We granted leave to appeal.\nThe plaintiff was injured while doing work in connection with the cleaning and maintenance of a band saw. The defendant does not deny that such work was prohibited by the regulations adopted pursuant to the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. secs. 212(c), 203(l) (1970).) The plaintiff argues (1) that his rejection of workmen\u2019s compensation benefits was timely made since it was made within 1 month after the appointment of a guardian, and (2) that the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act are applicable to the term \u201cillegally employed minor\u201d under the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act. We will consider first the question of whether the rejection ' of benefits was timely filed.\nThe plaintiff alleges that the 6-month period for rejection of benefits does not run until the appointment of a guardian. He contends that minors are under a legal disability and do not have the power to reject their rights under the Act, and urges that rejection of benefits by the guardian, in less than a month after his appointment, even though more than 6 months after the injury, is timely.\nIn Ferguson v. Industrial Com. (1947), 397 Ill. 348, 352, the court held that the requirement that notice of an injury must be given to the employer within 30 days of that injury applies to minors on the grounds that the Act created a special statutory cause of action unknown at common law, and, \u201cThe commission, a creature of the statute, is not a court. It is an administrative body charged with the duty of administering the act under which it was created. The liability or nonliability of an employer is one imposed by the act itself, and unless an employee, claiming the right to an award, brings himself within the jurisdictional provisions of the act, no award can be granted him. (Keller v. Industrial Com. 350 Ill 390.)\u201d\nIn Johnson v. Industrial Com. (1972), 53 Ill.2d 23, 24, it was held that the 1-year-limitation provision of the Act was applicable to minors on the authority of Ferguson. The distinction between jurisdictional requirements and limitations provisions was explicitly rejected. The rationale of Ferguson and Johnson dictates that we hold here that the 6-month period for the rejection of benefits runs from the time of the injury, not from the time of appointment of a guardian. Therefore, the plaintiff here did not timely reject his benefits under the Workmen\u2019s Compensation Act, and that act is his sole remedy for damages suffered due to this injury. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 48, par. 138.5.) The circuit court was correct in granting the defendant\u2019s motion to dismiss the amended complaint. The court in Johnson concluded its dissertation on the limitation provisions, at page 27, as follows:\n\u201cAccordingly, we hold that appellant, although a minor, was bound by the one-year limitation of the Act, and having failed to file within the specified time limit his applications were properly dismissed.\u201d\nIn view of our holding on the limitation issue, we find it unnecessary to consider the plaintiff\u2019s argument that standards other than the Child Labor Law (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1967, ch. 48, par. 31.1 et seq.) are to apply in determining what constitutes an \u201cillegally employed minor.\u201d\nWe, therefore, hold that the amended complaint was properly dismissed, and the judgments of the appellate and circuit court are therefore affirmed.\nJudgments affirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Asher, Greenfield, Gubbins & Segall, of Chicago (Eugene I. Pavalon and Peter B. Carey, of counsel), for appellant.",
      "Lord, Biss ell & Brook, of Chicago (C. Roy Peterson and Richard E. Mueller, of counsel), for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "(No. 45930.\nLUTHER ESTEP, Appellant, v. JANLER PLASTIC MOLD CORPORATION, Appellee.\nOpinion filed May 29, 1974.\nRehearing denied June 28, 1974.\nAsher, Greenfield, Gubbins & Segall, of Chicago (Eugene I. Pavalon and Peter B. Carey, of counsel), for appellant.\nLord, Biss ell & Brook, of Chicago (C. Roy Peterson and Richard E. Mueller, of counsel), for appellee."
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