Petrone v. Moffat Coal Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Musmanno,

When Joseph P. Petrone was thirteen years of age, the economic straits of his family drove, him into the anthracite mines of Lackawanna County. After toiling for thirty-three years in the depth of the earth, extracting one of nature’s most useful minerals, Petrone found his strength ebbing, his step faltering, and his. lungs clogging. He soon learned that he was doomed by the fate which has caught up with countless coal miners. Anthracosilicosis had taken up. dread habitation in his chest.' He could not work — his days as a coal miner were over. Pie filed a…