179 Ga. 764 | Ga. | 1934
Under subparagraph 1 of paragraph (d) of section 2 of-the workmen’s compensation act, where an injury occurs to an employee and the employer is required to compensate the employee, and at the same time a third person has injured the employee as a tort-feasor, if the injured employee establishes a legal liability against the third person who is a tort-feasor, the compensation awarded under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act shall be reduced by a contribution from the recovery against the tort-feasor upon the legal liability for the wrong inflicted by him. From this it is plain that voluntary settlements between one who may have been injured by the negligence of another, and such other, are not within the scope of this section of the amendment to the original workmen’s compensation act. It appears from the question in this case that it was expressly agreed