Pollock v. Clairton School District

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The claimant in this workmen’s compensation case is the widow of W. J. Pollock, employed as a janitor in one of the buildings of Clairton School District. She alleged that while her husband was engaged in shoveling coal into a furnace about 10:30 o’clock on the night of April 24,1929, he suffered a * ‘ strangulated inter-abdominal hernia,” which caused his death about four o’clock on the morning of April 27th. The school district and Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, its insurance carrier, defended upon the general ground that the requirements of the Act of…