Athens Railway & Electric Co. v. Kinney

One ground of the demurrer urges that ii appears from the petition that plaintiff has been settled with by the employer of her husband, under the terms of which settlement she is to receive $12.50 a week for 300 weeks; that the receipt required by the act of 1920, given by petitioner, relieved the employer from all further liability, and was a complete settlement as to the right of the plaintiff to recover for the death of her husband; that this settlement, alleged to have been made in pursuance of the act of 1920 (entitled “Georgia Workmen’s Compensation Act”) became conclusive as to…