Allen v. Kansas City Fibre Box Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.':

This was an action for compensation for an injury to a finger sustained by plaintiff while employed in defendant’s factory.

Defendant pleaded a settlement and release, to which plaintiff replied that he could neither read nor write, that he was over sixty years of age and had no education, and that defendant’s officers had led him to believe he was merely making his mark on a voucher for two weeks’ compensation. He further replied that he was not advised that he was signing a release, nor had he any intention to do so, and that any such…