Zelenko v. Carnegie Coal Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

In this workmen’s compensation case the court below entered a judgment in favor of the employer. Upon petition of the claimant, we permitted his appeal from that judgment to be presented in forma pauperis.

While in the course of his employment in one of the defendant’s mines, on February 16, 1934, claimant was accidentally struck on his left side by an iron bar and sustained a fracture of two ribs. Under an open compensation agreement for total disability, at the rate of $11.23 per week, he was paid for a period of 7-2/7 weeks and executed a final receipt, in which it…