Stewart v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Clarion County, reversing the deci sion of the Workmen’s Compensation Board awarding compensation to Ronald E. Stewart, the claimant-appellant, for total disability.

The claimant was employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Highways, which department, together with the State Workmen’s Insurance Fund, are the appellees, in March of 1958, as a general laborer, at an hourly wage of $1.48 and assigned to the Clarion, Pennsylvania office of the Highway Department to do maintenance work. He was 20 years of age at…