Broad Street Trust Co. v. Heyl Bros.

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

There is no reasonable doubt that Antenas Kalvinskas, the father of the minor dependent claimants, died on April 12, 1935, from streptococcic septicaemia or blood poisoning as a result of an infection of the right thumb, received through a cut or scratch. In the words of the coroner’s physician, “I believe undoubtedly he had an infection of the hand, resulting in generalized invasion of the bloodstream, and death.” The records of the Pennsylvania Hospital to which he was taken on April 4, and where he died, and the laboratory report of the pus cells taken from his…