Ridgeway v. Real Estate Operating Co.

This writ brings up a judgment of the Mercer County Court of Common Pleas, affirming an award of the compensation bureau, on a claim that respondent’s husband met his death from asphyxiation by coal gas. At the time of decedent’s death, on August 9th, 1935, he was employed as janitor of the apartment house of prosecutor, and his duties required him to take care of and coal a water heater in the cellar of the house. At the hearing, it appeared to have been conceded that the work of decedent included looking after this hot water heater and that he was found in a comatose state, or dead, in a…