Semonovich v. Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co.

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal in a workmen’s compensation case from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County, reversing the workmen’s compensation board and denying benefits to the appellant, Imogene Semonovich, widow of Mike Semonovich, deceased, on the ground that the decedent violated mining laws.

Mike Semonovich, the decedent, on August 27, 1954, in the course of his employment by the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal Company, the appellee, as a fire boss, was killed in a mine explosion. The appellee denied liability for the reason that the decedent violated the *488Pennsyl…