Barclay-Westmoreland Trust Co. v. Latrobe Borough

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

This appeal by an insurance carrier raises the question of the right to recover compensation by the children of a member of the volunteer fire company of Latrobe Borough, who met with an accidental death alleged to have occurred in the course of his employment.

The referee granted an award, which was sustained by the board and the learned court below.

The essential facts are not in dispute. On the evening of August 3, 1935, Charles Fagan, chief of the fire department, learning that due to a flood a number of the inhabitants of the small town of Dorothy, situate about a…