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SEELEY v. GALETON LUMBER CO. ET AL.

No. 404 C.D. 1976.

28 Pa.Commw. 382 (1977)

Beatrice Marie Seeley v. Galeton Lumber Company and Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board. Beatrice Marie Seeley, Appellant.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

February 7, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold B. Fink, Jr., with him Fink and Young, for appellant.

David A. Ody, Assistant Attorney General, with him James N. Diefenderfer, for appellees.

Argued December 7, 1976, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., KRAMER, WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS and BLATT.

OPINION BY JUDGE MENCER, February 7, 1977:

In this appeal from a decision of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board), we are faced with the question of whether a lump-sum compromise settlement of the workmen's compensation claim of Beatrice Marie Seeley (claimant) is null and void because it violates Section 407 of The Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act (Act).1 Both the referee and the Board concluded as a matter of law that...

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