Flucker v. Carnegie Steel Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 65, Oct. T., 1918, by plaintiff, from order of O. P. Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1918, No. 1007, reversing decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board in case of Mary A. Flucker v. Carnegie Steel Company. Appeal from award of Workmen’s Compensation Board.
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Appeal, No. 65, Oct. T., 1918, by plaintiff, from order of O. P. Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1918, No. 1007, reversing decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board in case of Mary A. Flucker v. Carnegie Steel Company. Appeal from award of Workmen’s Compensation Board. Before Carpenter, J. Error assigned was order reversing the award. cited: McCauley v. Imperial Woolen Co., 261 Pa. 312; Cartin v. Standard Tin Plate Co., 263 Pa. 56. We have been unable to find a decision in any state which holds that the question as to whether an accident occurred in the course of employment is one of fact. On the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Moschzisker,
Henry Flucker, a man in good health, fifty-five years of age, was employed in the Carnegie Steel Company’s Pittsburgh plant; at the time of the accident, he was working on night turn, beginning his daily service at six o’clock p. m. and quitting at six a. m.; it was his duty to look after two pumping stations, 350 feet apart, one being on what is known as the “Carnegie side” and *116the other across a small ravine, about eighteen feet deep and twenty feet wide; to enable defendant’s employees to go from one side of this ravine to the other, it is spanned by a…
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