Dotson v. Proctor & Gamble Manufacturing Co.

Citations

• 102 Kan. 248
• 169 P. 1136
• 1918 Kan. LEXIS 18

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Compensation Act — Injuries'—Voluntary Settlement — Written Release— Inadequate Compensation. The workmen’s compensation act (Laws 1911, ch. 218, and amendments, Gen. Stat. 1915, § 5896, et seq.) recognizes the legality of a voluntary settlement and release of a workman’s claim against his employer for injuries sustained in the service of the latter; and, in the absence of fraud or mutual mistake, the satisfaction and release of such a claim, pursuant to such voluntary settlement, cannot be set aside on the ground of gross inadequacy of compensation, following Odrowski v. Swift & Co., 99 Kan. 163,162 Pac. 268; Weathers v. Bridge Co., 99 Kan. 632, 162 Pac. 957.</p>