Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Bethlehem Mines Corp.

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

This is an appeal by an employer from the affirmance by the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board of a referee’s order directing the appellant to pay $150.00 to a claimant’s doctor as fee for his deposition entered into the record of a referee’s hearing. We affirm the Board’s order.

After some 42 years of employment in the coal industry, the claimant John Rastoka retired on August 10, 1973. On December 10, 1973, he filed a claim petition for compensation for silicosis and anthraco-silicosis with the Bureau of Occupational Injury and Disease Compensation. At referee…