P. P. G. Industries, Inc. v. Aites

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

This workmen’s compensation case presents for our decision the issue of whether a partially disabled employee loses his right to compensation by quitting a job provided by his employer at no loss of earnings in order to enter a profession where the emoluments of his new calling prove to be insufficient to his needs and he is thereafter unable because of his disability to find other employment.

The claimant, Virgil C. Aites, sustained a back injury while employed by PPG Industries, Inc., as a loader. By agreement, disability payments were suspended when he returned to PPG…