Hale v. Savage Fire Brick Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 151, Oct. T., 1920, by defendant from judgment of O. P. Bedford County, Nov. T., 1917, No. 130, affirming award by Workmen’s Compensation Board in the case of Nathan Hale v. Savage Fire Brick Company. Appeal from the award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Before Bailey, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. The court affirmed the award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Plaintiff appealed.
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Appeal, No. 151, Oct. T., 1920, by defendant from judgment of O. P. Bedford County, Nov. T., 1917, No. 130, affirming award by Workmen’s Compensation Board in the case of Nathan Hale v. Savage Fire Brick Company. Appeal from the award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Before Bailey, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. The court affirmed the award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned, among others, was the decree of the court. cited: Peterson v. Davis Lupton’s Sons Co., 2 Dept. Bep. 842; Wm. H. Woodward v. Wm. H. Mitchell, 3…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Keller, J.,
This is a case arising under the Workmen’s Compensation Act of 1915.
The referee found — and there was evidence to support the finding — that the claimant, Hale (a boy eighteen years old), was employed by appellant as a laborer, to open and close doors. That on April 2,1919, about 12:15 o’clock while he was eating his lunch on the employer’s premises, as was his custom, near his place of work, he was approached by two fellow workmen (of about the same age), who asked him for some tobacco, and on being refused made an attempt to seize claimant and take the tobacco from him;…
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