State Workmen's Insurance Fund v. Pitt Lumber Co.

Bailey, P. J.,

This is an action of assumpsit brought by the State Workmen’s Insurance Fund against Pitt Lumber Company to recover a balance of premium alleged by the plaintiff to be due from the defendant upon a policy of compensation insurance in force for the year 1924. The essential facts are not in dispute.

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union Lumber Company, a partnership, afterwards incorporated as Pitt Lumber Company, made application to the plaintiff under provisions of section 16 of the State Workmen’s Insurance Fund Act of June 2, 1915, P. L. 762, upon a printed blank furnished by the…