Kasman v. Hillman Coal & Coke Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

This is another of those utterly futile appeals in a workmen’s compensation case by which we are asked to invade the exclusive province of the compensation authorities and reverse a finding made against the claimant by a referee, and adopted by the board, upon the controlling medical issue of fact, although it is fully supported by the testimony of the attending physician and another medical expert. We have repeatedly held that where there is competent and substantial evidence on the record sufficient to sustain the findings of the board, as the ultimate fact-finding…