Kocher v. Lehigh Navigation Coal Co.

Opinion by

Ross, J.,

In this workmen’s compensation case, the referee’s award was affirmed by the board but reversed by the court below and the claimant, widow of the employe, took this appeal.

The claimant’s husband was employed as a laborer by the defendant at its colliery. On January 19, 1944, after having completed his work for the day, the employe was on his way home, traveling over a path that led from his actual place of work over land of the employer, across main line railroad tracks of the Lehigh and New England Railroad Company, thence over other land of the employer used in its mining…