Willard v. City of Portland

WATHEN, Justice.

The employee, Jonathan B. Willard, appeals from a judgment of the Workers’ Compensation Commission denying his petition to annul an agreement for the discontinuance of compensation on the basis of an alleged mistake of fact pursuant to 39 M.R. S.A. § 102 (1978). Finding no error of law in the determination that the employee failed to establish a mistake of fact within the meaning of section 102, we deny the appeal.

The employee was working for the City of Portland as a sanitation technician when he injured his back on December 7, 1977. After the injury recurred in April, 1978,…