Condron v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 177, Oct. T., 1921, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. Northumberland County, Sept. T., 1920, No. 458, affirming decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board in the case of Margaret Condron v. The Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company. Appeal from decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board.
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Appeal, No. 177, Oct. T., 1921, by plaintiff, from judgment of O. P. Northumberland County, Sept. T., 1920, No. 458, affirming decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board in the case of Margaret Condron v. The Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company. Appeal from decision of Workmen’s Compensation Board. Before Cummings, P. J. The court affirmed the decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board in the following opinion: Margaret Condron, the plaintiff, filed a petition asking for compensation for the death of her son, who was her only support and who was seventeen years of age, and in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
The plaintiff alleged that she is entitled to compensation because of the death of a minor son, who was employed in a mine of the defendant company and who was last seen in one of the gangways, going back to look for a watch which he said he had lost; this was on November 25, 1918. So far as appears from the evidence, the young man has not been seen from that time.
The evidence does not show that he was the subject of an accident. The case rests on the inference, therefore, that he lost his life in the mine — this inference arising from the fact that he did not return…
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