Kincannon v. State Compensation Commissioner

Woods, President:

Charles Kincannon, who has received compensation on the basis of a fifty per cent, disability from the Workmen’s Compensation Fund, appeals from the action of the Commissioner refusing to re-open his claim for additional compensation.

From the record before us, it would seem that the claimant is totally disabled; yet the two Commissioners who have had this case before them have consistently maintained that a further consideration of the claim was barred by reason of a certain writing, executed by claimant over two years ago, purporting to release and discharge the Workmen’s…