Stone v. Compensation Appeal Board

Lively, Judge:

Petitioner, C. E. Stone, prosecutes this appeal from an order of the Compensation Appeal Board which affirmed a ruling of the Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner granting petitioner, a motorman in the mines of the Bethlehem Mines Corporation, at Reedsville, a disability award of fifty-five per cent because of an injury to his back occasioned by a fall of slate.

It is the contention of the petitioner that the clear preponderance of the evidence establishes the fact that the petitioner, who is dependent upon manual labor as his only means of livelihood, is totally and permanently…