Biasi v. Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

This is an appeal by the defendant in a workman’s compensation case and the question to be determined is whether there was sufficient evidence to sustain the award.

Plaintiff’s husband, for whose death compensation is claimed, was a coal miner employed by defendant. There is no question but that he was poisoned by black damp in defendant’s mine on February 18, 1925, and suffered from convulsions as a result. It is admitted by appellant that poison by black damp is trauma or force according to its technical meaning under the Workmen’s Compensation Law.

On April 8,…