Kramer v. Susquehanna Collieries Co.

Opinion by

Stadtfeld, J.,

This is a workmen’s compensation casa

The claimant in this case is the widow of George Kramer. Decedent met with an accident in the course of his employment on October 24, 1932, by being struck with a brick in the middle of his left shin bone, and died on January 19, 1933 while a patient in the Geisinger Hospital, the cause of death being a strangulated femoral hernia, plus bronchial pneumonia, complicating cellulitis of the left leg with septicemia'.

A claim for compensation was filed and after due hearing, the referee made an award. The referee made, inter alia, the…