Kopecky v. Coalmont Moshannon Coal Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

George Michalec was killed by accident on November 26, 1918, in the course of his employment for defendant at Houtzdale, Pennsylvania. He was an alien, being a native of Rockovia, Hungary, where his wife and children still reside. Because of the war between the United States and Austria-Hungary, the affairs of the latter country here were in charge of the Royal Swedish vice-consul who, on November 5, 1919, filed, in the proper office, a claim petition under the Workmen’s Compensation Statutes, on behalf of those who might be entitled to compensation on account of…