Puchner v. Employers' Liability Assur. Corp.

FOURNET, Justice.

This is a suit by an employee to set aside ’ the proceedings and judgment whereby he compromised his claim for compensation with his employer and its insurer and to recover compensation against the insurer for total and permanent disability, plus a penalty of SO per cent, to be paid in a lump sum, with legal interest, less the amount previously paid him.

For cause of action plaintiff alleges that the settlement was made in contravention of the provisions of the compensation act, Act No. 20 of 1914, as amended, in that there was no legal or valid basis for the compromise, the…