Parks v. Miller Printing MacHine Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Stern,

In this case the Superior Court reversed a judgment of the Common Pleas entered in favor of defendant, and directed judgment to be entered on the award to plaintiff which had been made by the Workmen’s Compensation Board (133 Pa. Superior Ct. 530).

Plaintiff’s husband, hereinafter referred to as decedent, was a machinist by trade and worked for defendant, Miller Printing Machine Company, in Pittsburgh, as a “planer hand.” On March 17, 1936, a part of that city was flooded. The water in defendant’s plant reached a height of eleven feet, filling the basement and the…