Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Borough of Plum & Bituminous Casualty Corp.

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

The Borough of Plum, and its insurance carrier, Bituminous Casualty Corporation (Appellants here), appeal from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed the referee’s decision awarding compensation to Anne Shremshock (Claimant), wife of the deceased, Michael Shremshock (Decedent), who had filed a fatal claim petition. We affirm.

The thrust of Appellant’s petition here, as it was be>fore the Board, is that at the time of Decedent’s death he was not for the purposes of compensation, acting in the course of his employment. This…