Cambria Coal Co. v. Daugherty

This is an appeal from an award for compensation of $6.'50 per week for four. hundred weeks and $100 for burial expenses. It is conceded that the husband of petitioner lost his life in the course of his employment by the Company. The main insistence of the Company on this appeal is that the petitioner was voluntarily living apart from her husband. (Subsec. (1), Sec. 30 of Chap. 123, Acts of 1919.) The record shows that some years before a suit for divorce from bed and board had been brought by the wife on account of desertion and failure' to support and that in that suit she was given a…