Bauman v. Spokas

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The judgment from which the employer in this workmen’s compensation case has appealed cannot be sustained as entered. The main difficulty is that no one seems to have paid any attention to the important fact that the legislature expressly provided in Section 306(c) of the reenacting ,and amending Workmen’s Compensation Act of June 4, 1937, P. L. 1552, 77 PS §513, that permanent “loss of the function” of a joint or joints of a finger of an employee, caused by an accident sustained in the course of his employment, should be considered a “permanent injury” within the…