Connelly Containers, Inc. v. Gahan

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

The notable feature of this workmen's compensation cause is that it is, and has been for five years, in a procedural snarl of unprecedented dimensions.

The claimant, Frank J. Gahan, was employed by Connelly Containers to “[take] care of the tool room in conjunction with the boilers and the plant, the heating of the plant and the process steam of the plant and other minor duties attached to that.”1 The plant was shut during the last week of the year 1963 and Gahan and others were mending or installing asbestos coverings on boiler pipes. The claimant asserts that on…