Watkins v. Pittsburgh Coal Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 57, Oct. T., 1923, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. Allegheny Co., July T., 1922, No. 2263, sustaining decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board, in case of Agnes Watkins v. Pittsburgh Coal Co. Appeal from decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board, which sustained award of compensation by referee. Before Ford, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Decision sustained. Defendant appealed.
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Appeal, No. 57, Oct. T., 1923, by defendant, from judgment of O. P. Allegheny Co., July T., 1922, No. 2263, sustaining decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board, in case of Agnes Watkins v. Pittsburgh Coal Co. Appeal from decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board, which sustained award of compensation by referee. Before Ford, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. Decision sustained. Defendant appealed. Errors assigned were dismissal of exceptions to decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board, quoting record.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Walling,
Plaintiff’s husband, John J. Watkins, was working nights for the Pittsburgh Coal Company, defendant, at a. mine and while his main work was in the boiler house his duty also required him each night to go down into the mine pit and look after the pumps. To do so he *465passed down a flight of twelve steps and thence over a level space, traversed by two railroad tracks, to a stairway leading down some eighty feet to the pumps, where he was usually occupied about an hour and a half. On the evening of March 31,1920, he went to work as usual and about ten o’clock…
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