Hanyok v. Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Corp.

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

The Workmen’s Compensation Act of 1915, P. L. 736, as amended by the Act of 1939, P. L. 520, which was in force when the claimant’s accidental injury occurred, contains in section 306(e) the following provision: “If the employee shall refuse reasonable surgical, medical and hospital services, treatment, medicines and supplies, tendered to him by his employer, he shall forfeit all rights to compensation for any injury or any increase in his incapacity shown to have resulted from such refusal.”

The meaning of this clause, as originally enacted 1 was passed upon by us and…