Bubis v. Flockhardt Foundry Co.

This appeal brings up the judgment of the Supreme Court reversing the judgment of the Common Pleas in a workmen’s compensation case, in which the judge of the Pleas in dismissing the petition reversed the bureau and held that in taking the added risk involved by the use of gasoline to kindle a fire with which to warm himself, the act of the employe was not a reasonable incident to his employment and was not contemplated by it and was entirely outside its scope and that the accident caused by the explosion of the gasoline did not arise out of the employment.

The facts of the case are stated in…