Miller v. Farmers National Bank

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

Claimant’s husband, while painting the ceiling of a hallway in defendant’s bank building, fell from a scaffold and died from a fractured skull. Both the referee and the board refused compensation on the ground that the employment was casual, and not in the regular course of defendant’s business. The lower court affirmed, with some reluctance, concluding that the case is ruled by Ronan v. Eddy, 136 Pa. Superior Ct. 436, 7 A. 2d 534. The character of the employment and its relation to defendant’s business, present the questions of law (Callihan v. Montgomery, 272 Pa. 56, 115…