New York Shipbuilding Co. v. Buchanan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The employer admitted liability and conceded the claims of petitioner for a weekly payment of $7.91 to run for four hundred weeks. The controversy below was on the question whether there should be a commutation of this into a lump sum, pursuant to paragraph 21 of the act. Pamph. L. 1911, p. 113.

We find nothing in the case to justify the award of a lump sum. The statute says that the commutation may be ordered, “provided the same be in the interest of justice. Unless so approved, no compensation payments shall be commuted.” The amendment of…