Crispin v. Leedom Worrall Co.

Cunningham, J.,

Opinion by

The employer and its insurance carrier have appealed in this workmen’s compensation case from the judgment entered in the court below upon an award of compensation to the claimant for total disability, held to be attributable to a “personal injury......by an accident, in the course of his employment.” The fundamental issue is whether there was competent proof of an “injury by an accident,” within the meaning of Section 301 of our Workmen’s Compensation Act of June 2, 1915, P. L. 736, 77 PS §§411 and 431. The portion of the “physical structure” of claimant’s body…