Legal Opinion
Yahnert v. Logan Coal Company
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 11, 1937No. Appeal, 199PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Cunningham, J.,
The judgment appealed from in this workmen’s compensation case was entered by the court below upon an award to the widow of William Yahnert, in her own right and on behalf of six dependent children of the decedent. It was averred in the claim petition that the husband and father was instantly killed on the afternoon of March 1, 1934, by an explosion which occurred while he was engaged, along with other workmen, in endeavoring to remove ice with carbide from an air shaft into the Beaverdale Mine of the Logan Coal Company in Cambria County. The description of the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Callihan v. MontgomerySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1922
- Gailey v. State Workmen's Insurance FundSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
- Hauger v. Walker Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1923
- Flaharty v. TroutSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1927
- O'Donnell v. S. Fayette Twp. School DistrictSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
3Cited by3 opinions
- Cochrane v. William Penn HotelSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1940
- Booth v. FreerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
- Cramer v. East Shore Materials, Inc., Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Dauphin County1963