Voorhees v. Smith Schoonmaker Co.

The opinion of tlie court was delivered by

Pakkek, J.

The principal question raised is whether the Court of Common Pleas was justified in finding that the death of Ira Voorhees, the employe, resulted from an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment.

The deceased, a man of middle age or over, worked in a woodworking shop of prosecutor, and at the time of the seizure just preceding his death was working at a task of furrowing sixteen posts, each six inches square and weighing about one hundred pounds apiece. To do this he bad to get each post upon the table of the furrowing…