Earley v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

This appeal in a workmen’s compensation case involves the question whether the defendant’s application to terminate an agreement should have been granted.

The claimant admittedly sustained an accidental injury while at work on March 22, 1933, when coal from a chute hit him causing a fracture of the first lumbar vertebra. An agreement for total disability was entered into and compensation was paid thereunder from March 30, 1933 to February 1, 1939, inclusive, a period of 305 weeks. On March 10, 1939, the employer, appellant herein, petitioned for a termination of the…