Steffy v. Reading

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

The first question here presented is one of law: If a paid driver in a volunteer company which constitutes part of the fire department of a third class city is not a city employe is he nevertheless entitled to the civil service protection provided by the Act of May 31,1933, P. L. 1108? The second is a question of fact: Was plaintiff an, employe of the City of Beading or only of the volunteer fire company whose apparatus he drove?

Plaintiff served as a paid fireman from May 11, 1923 to July 6, 1943, attached to the “Oakbrook Fire Company” in Beading. He was…