Carland v. Vance

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

This appeal is from the decree of the court of common pleas sustaining exceptions to the allowance of an award by the board in a workmen’s compensation case.

Tlie question for determination is whether the claimant in the course of his employment sustained an accidental injury within section 301 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act approved June 2, 1915, P. L. 736 (77 PS §411).

The claimant, 18 years of age, was employed by the defendants as a gasoline station attendant. During the evening of December 31, 1936, while filling a tank for a customer he spilled a quantity of…