Hall v. Carnegie Institute of Technology

Opinion by

Ross, J.,

The claimant in this workmen’s compensation case is the widow of Robert A. Hall, who was killed on the premises of his employer by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The compensation authorities’ award was sustained by the court below and the employer took this appeal.

Hall was employed by the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh as a clerk in the chemical storeroom. One of his duties was to make an annual Inventory of the chemicals in the storeroom and on the evening of May 4, 1949, he was engaged in making the usual annual inventory.

The storeroom in which the…