Senlock v. P. & R. C. & I. Co.

Opinion by

Baedkige, J.,

The sole question in this compensation case is whether the death of claimant’s husband from pneumonia was the result of accidental injury, as contemplated by the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The compensation authorities found that it was. With this conclusion we concur.

When the decedent went to work in defendant’s coal mine on the night of April 17, 1930, he was apparently in good health. He, with another employe, was engaged, when he began his work, in standing timber in a gangway where he had been working for some days. In places this gangway was wet and in other parts…