Miller v. Pittsburgh Coal Co.

Citations

• 77 Pa. Super. 51
• 1921 Pa. Super. LEXIS 206

Syllabus

<p>Workmen's compensation — Payments—Release—Mistaken facts —Serious consequences of accident — Opening of award.</p> <p>Where the court of common pleas dismisses an appeal from an award of Workmen’s Compensation Board it should enter judgment for the total amount stated by the award or order to be payable, whether then due and accrued or payable in future installments, in accordance with section 427 of the Act of June 26,1919, P. L. 642.</p> <p>The Workmen’s Compensation Board has authority to set aside a final receipt and modify an agreement 'go as to provide for the loss of an eye, when at the time that a release had been executed by the plaintiff, the accident was thought to be trivial. In such ease the provisions of section 315 of the Act of June 2,. 1915, P. L. 736, providing that “where payments of compensation have been made in any case” the limitations of the right to claim compensation ghall not take effect until the expiration of one year from the time of the making of the last payment, do not apply.</p>