Stinger v. Rinold Bros.

Opinion by

Trexler, J.,

The claimant was injured while working with his father-in-law, both being in the employ of the defendants. The father-in-law died from the injury received. The claimant was only burned about his hands, and within three weeks the burns had healed. He, however, asserts that the accident left him with shattered nerves. There is a question .whether his condition was due to the shock of his father-in-law’s death, and the realization that he “came so near being dead himself” or from the burns. The compensation board took the latter view. There is no doubt that there was…