P. Bronstein Co., Inc. v. Hoffman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The essential question is whether the widow and dependent children of the deceased employe, whose death ensued from an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, are concluded by what is conceded to have been a compromise of their claim for compensation under the statute (Pamph. L. 1911, pp. 134, 763, as amended), then disputed by the employer as to “both liability and coverage.” Conceiving that the controversy as to liability has since, in another case, been judicially resolved against…