Burchewsky v. Max Bailis & Sons

Lewis, J.,

The issue involved in this appeal by the State Workmen’s Insurance Fund from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board turns on *379interpretation of section 413 of The Workmen’s Compensation Act of June 2, 1915, P. L. 736, as amended by the Act of June 4,1937, P. L. 1552. A petition to terminate a compensation award was treated by the board as a petition to modify and compensation for total disability was awarded for a period of about two weeks prior to the filing of the petition during which the board found that in fact only partial (75 percent) disability existed.

Thus, the board…