Griffin v. Coal Operators Casualty Co.

GLADNEY, Judge.

Floyd Griffin, an employee of the W. S. Peck Estate, has brought this action to recover additional workmen’s compensation and to annul and set aside a judgment rendered on September 10, 1952, approving a compromise settlement entered into between Griffin, his employer, and its insurer, the Coal Operators Casualty Company.

Grounds of attack upon the judgment alleged upon are: first, that a bona fide dispute did not exist between the parties to the compromise settlement as there could not have been reasonable doubt Griffin at the time of the settlement was totally and permanently…