Booth v. Freer

Opinion bt

Baldbige, J.,

The claimant, a painter, while working for defendant fell from a ladder and sustained a fracture of the neck vertebrae. The compensation authorities found that claimant’s employment was casual in character and in the regular course of defendant’s business, and granted an award for total disability. Upon appeal to the court of common pleas, exceptions to the board’s findings and conclusions were sustained.

The lower court, in the first part of its opinion, recognized that under section 104 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of June 2, 1915, P. L. 736 (77 PS §22) in order…