Demuzzio v. Lattimer Coal Corp.

Opinion by

Ross, J.,

In this workmen’s compensation case Joseph Demuzzio, husband of the claimant, while working as a miner in the Humbolt Colliery of the Lattimer Coal Company was killed by a fall of rock on March 12, 1943. The referee awarded the claimant compensation but the award was reversed by the Workmen’s Compensation board. The court below sustained the decision of the board and dismissed the appeal.

For some weeks before Demuzzio was killed, he and a fellow miner, John Krivak, had been working in a breast about sixteen or eighteen feet wide from which several headings had been driven.…