Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board of Commonwealth v. Penn Brook Milk Co.

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

This is an appeal by Penn Brook Milk Company and Federal Insurance Company (appellants) from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) sustaining a referee’s grant of workmen’s compensation benefits to Margaret H. Vain (claimant). Claimant is the surviving dependent spouse of Robert J. Vain (Vain) who died during the course of his employment as a milk truck driver and dairy salesman.

The facts immediately surrounding Vain’s death, the proof of which here is necessarily dependent on conflicting circumstantial evidence, presented a very difficult setting…