Mosser v. Mount Union Borough

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

Claimant’s husband, Samuel S. Mosser, had been chief of the borough’s volunteer fire department for many years. With other members of the department he responded to a fire alarm in the early morning of December 5, 1942. A few minutes after 4 A. M. on his return to the fire house he collapsed and was dead. He had suffered two prior attacks indicating an abnormal heart condition. The board found: “That the coronary condition from which the decedent suffered was contributed to and aggravated by the exertion and inhalation of smoke while engaged in his duties as fireman and…