Boyko v. Federated Metals Corp.

This appeal hinges upon the important and constantly recurring question as to the binding effect of a compromise settlement between employer and employe stated to be a “complete and final disposition” of the matter and thereafter approved by the bureau and entered as a formal award. The workmen’s compensation bureau has twice ruled such an approved agreement to be a final and complete' bar even to a consideration of subsequently increased or diminished disability under section 21-f of the act (as amended by Pamph. L. 1931, ch. 279, p. 704, ¶ 2; Williams v. Yellow Taxi Cab, 7 N. J. Mis. R.…