Eleftherion v. Great Falls Manufacturing Co.

The material facts found were these. The plaintiff signed an agreement to accept compensation for his injury and later receipted for two payments of compensation. When he signed the agreement, he thought it was a notice to the defendant of the accident. When the payments were made, he did not understand they were on account of compensation. Not until a later time did he have any “knowledge of his remedial rights. He did not understand our language, and the negotiations for the agreement were conducted through an interpreter furnished by the defendant. The interpreter was incompetent, did not…