Claim of Snyder v. Union Mills, Inc.

The record discloses that the claimant applying for a lump sum award under the provisions of section 25 of the Workmen’s Compensation Law is a woman of no business experience and that she has no one in her family competent to advise her on such matters. She has a home in which she lives with her family, upon which there is a mortgage of a little over $2,000, payable in small installments. She wishes to pay off this mortgage and undertake a somewhat elaborate program of repairs, alterations and improvements on her property, for the purpose of renting the upper portion of the house while she…