Matkosky v. Midvale Company

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

This appeal by the employer in a workmen’s compensation case is from a judgment entered in the court below upon an award made upon the theory that the claimant-appellee sustained, in the course of his employment on October 5, 1937, an accidental injury to the distal phalange of his right thumb which entitled him, under the provisions of Section 306(c) of our Workmen’s Compensation Act of June 2, 1915, P. L. 736, as amended April 13, 1927, P. L. 186, 77 PS §513, to compensation at the rate of $15 per week for a period of thirty weeks for the “loss of the first phalange…