Ream v. Saxman Coal & Coke Co.

Opinion by

IIirt. J.,

The claimant, a coal miner, suffered a fracture of the first lumbar vertebra from a fall of rock in the course of his employment. The employer or the insurance carrier paid claimant a total of $2,827 over a period of 87 weeks, in accordance with a compensation agreement entered into for total disability. At the end of that period the defendants on February 6, 1957, petitioned for a termination of the agreement under §306(f) of the Act of June 21, 1939, P. L. 520, 77 PS §531, as further amended. In the petition they averred that claimant had forfeited all rights to further…