Evon v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

We consolidated for argument the appeals of Goldie Evon and Marian Gannon from orders of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board overturning referees’ decisions awarding them compensation on fatal claim petitions in which they alleged that their husbands’ deaths resulted from work-related coal workers’1 pneumoconiosis. The issue in each case is *327that of whether the claimant had shown that the death of her husband resulted from the disease; and the statutory provision applicable is Section 301(c)(2) of The Workmen’s Compensation Act, Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as…