Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. v. Polk
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI to the supreme court of the state of PENNSYLVANIA. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Certiorari to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania affirming an award made under the Workmen’s Compensation Board of the State in favor of respondent who is the widow of John M. Polk, who died as the result‘of. an accident, occurring in the course of his employment by the Railway Company.
The matter of her petition proceeded in due course from the referee of the Board to the Board, from the latter to the Court of Common Pleas, and thence to the Supreme Court of the State, she being adjudged by all of them en titled to an award under the Workmen’s Compensation Act…
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