Ex Parte Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation

CARR, Judge.

On February 22, 1946, J. H. Cahela, a former employee of the Ingall Shipbuilding Corporation (which we will denote herein as the corporation), agreed with the latter on the terms of a settlement of a claim for compensation on account of an alleged personal injury. The papers were duly prepared and presented to Honorable C. B. Smith, Judge of the Circuit Court, who on the date just indicated approved the settlement agreement. Title 26, Sec. 278, Code 1940.

On March 22, 1946, Mr. Cahela filed a petition addressed “To The Honorable Judges of said Court” in which he prayed that the…