Manley v. Lycoming Motors Corp., Etc.

Opinion by

Kellee, J.,

The only question involved in this appeal is whether the Workmen’s Compensation Board, upon cause shown, may grant a claimant who has been disallowed compensation, but failed to appeal from such decision, a rehearing of his petition after the ten days allowed for taking an appeal have expired. If it may, the judgment of the lower court must be affirmed.

In disposing of the question it must be borne in mind that the Workmen’s Compensation Board is not a court and a proceeding under the act creating it is not “litigation” to which established rules and principles of common…