Hartman v. Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co.

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

Claimant suffered an injury in the course of his employment with the defendant on December 20, 1937. An agreement of compensation was duly entered into and compensation paid under it until April IS, 1938, when claimant returned to work, and executed and delivered a final receipt. He continued in his employment until July 1940, when it was terminated because of the mechanization of defendant’s mine.

On October 15, 1941 claimant filed a petition to set aside the final receipt on the stated grounds of (1) mutual mistake of fact, and (2) the employer’s improper conduct in…