Butler v. United States Steel Corp.

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal under the Occupational Disease Act of June 21, 1939, P. L. 566, as amended, 77 PS §1201, from an order by which the Court of Common Pleas of Greene County dismissed the appeal of the defendant-appellant, United States Steel Corporation, from an award of benefits to the claimant-appellee, John W. Butler, by the Workmen’s Compensation Board.

The claimant was employed by the appellant in various mines from 1915 until August of 1959. He then retired at the age of sixty-four years six months, to accept a miner’s welfare pension and in anticipation of his…