Cockrell v. Evans Lumber Co.

PHILLIPS, Judge.

The appeal in this workers’ compensation case is from a decision refusing to modify or set aside a final award entered by the Commission on 13 February 1980. The award approved a settlement between the parties requiring defendant to pay plaintiff $67.33 a week for 400 weeks because of her husband’s death by accident while working for defendant; and under the provisions of G.S. 97-17 it may be set aside only upon grounds specified therein, one of which is the mutual mistake of the parties, Pruitt v. Knight Publishing Co., 289 N.C. 254, 221 S.E.2d 355 (1976), the ground that…