Stampone v. Anthony Dally & Sons, Inc.

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This case arises under The Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act of June 21, 1939, P. L. 566, 77 PS §1201 et seq.

Claimant, Mary Stampone, widow of Michael Stampone, filed her petition for compensation which was first heard by Beferee David W. Phillips on November 22, 1954. The defendant offered no medical evidence at the hearing.

The claimant’s evidence showed that she was the widow of Michael Stampone; that he had been employed by various slate quarries from 1925 to November 1953, and that during that time he was exposed to a silica hazard. In November of 1953 an x-ray…