Dumbluskey v. P. & R. C. & I. Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 268, Jan. T., 1921, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Schuylkill Co., Sept. T., 1920, No. 285, affirming decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board which sustained award of allowance of referee, in case of Anna Dumbluskey v. Phila. & Reading Coal & Iron Co. Appeal from decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board. Before Bechtel, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court affirmed the opinion of the Workmen’s Compensation Board.
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Appeal, No. 268, Jan. T., 1921, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Schuylkill Co., Sept. T., 1920, No. 285, affirming decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board which sustained award of allowance of referee, in case of Anna Dumbluskey v. Phila. & Reading Coal & Iron Co. Appeal from decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board. Before Bechtel, P. J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court affirmed the opinion of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Defendant appealed. Error assigned, among others, was judgment, quoting it.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
Plaintiff petitioned the Workmen’s Compensation Board for an award of compensation for the death of her husband. The referee found, inter alia, “the injury that decedent sustained on February 24, 1920, while in the course of his employment, decreased the vitality and resisting power of the pleura and lung tissue, that pneumonia and influenza developed as a secondary infection which caused his death. We find here a direct connection between the injury to the man and his death.” The board subsequently, on appeal, approved the action of the referee and the Common Pleas of Schuylkill…
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