Claim of Adams v. Aluminum Co. of America

— Appeal by a self-insured employer from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which relieved the Special Fund for Reopened Cases of liability to claimant. The sole issue on appeal is whether a payment of $185.36, made by appellant to claimant on January 27, 1948, for the sole purpose of correcting a mistake made by the board in computing the amount due under an award made April 12, 1946, constitutes a payment of compensation made *1089less than three years prior to claimant’s application to reopen the claim within the meaning o£ section 25-a of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. We think…