Parrent v. Midway Toyota

This is an appeal from the Workers’ Compensation Court’s denial of claimant’s petition to reopen a final compromise settlement agreement entered into after claimant injured himself in the course of his employment.

The issue raised on this appeal is whether the Workers’ Compensation Court erred in refusing to allow claimant, who is a minor, to disaffirm the “petition for final settlement” and reopen his workers’ compensation case?

On August 18, 1975, claimant, who was then fifteen years old, injured his lower back while in the employ of Midway Toyota, Inc., of Great Falls, Montana. At the time…