Healey v. Hudson Coal Co.

Opinion by

Parker, J.,

The question raised by the appellant in this workmen’s compensation case is whether a lieutenant of police, an employee of the defendant coal company, was in the course of his employment at a time when he suffered accidental injuries which resulted in his death, where the employee was not on the premises of the employer when the accident occurred. The referee, the board, and a common pleas' court, in turn, held correctly, in the opinion of all of us, that the employee was so engaged and that the claimant is entitled to compensation for the death of her husband.

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