Keller v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Sprouse, Judge:

This is an appeal by the claimant, Phyllis E. Keller, widow of Raymond L. Keller, from a January 29, 1973, final order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board affirming the State Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner’s order which denied the claimant’s application for dependent benefits.

The Appeal Board ruled that, while the decedent had incurred a compensable injury to his back in the course of his employment, this injury did not cause his death. The sole question presented for decision is whether the injury which the claimant’s decedent sustained had a sufficient causal…