McGarvey v. Butler Consolidated Coal Co.

Opinion by

Reno, J.,

The question in this workmen’s compensation case is whether the record contains sufficient competent evidence to support the referee’s findings, affirmed by the board, that claimant is totally disabled solely as a result of silicosis contracted in defendant’s bituminous Coal mine, and whether the findings sustain .the conclusions of law and the award to claimant under the Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act of June 21, 1939, P. L. 586, 77 PS §§1201 et seq. The Commonwealth, with the employer and insurance carrier, appealed from the decision of the referee to the board,…