Harring v. Glen Alden Coal Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The appeal in this workmen’s compensation case is by the defendant coal company from a judgment entered by the court below upon an award by the referee and board to the widow of Joseph Harring (for herself and two of her children under the age of sixteen years) as compensation for the death of her husband on July 11, 1934, while in the employ of appellant.

The claim was presented and the award made under the provisions of Section 307 of our Workmen’s Compensation Act of June 2, 1915, P. L. 736, as finally amended by the Act of April 26, 1929, P. L. 829, 77 PS § 561,…