Wellinger v. Brackenridge Borough

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The judgment in this workmen’s compensation case, entered by the court below in favor of the claimant and in direct conflict with the findings of fact of the board, must be reversed because in so doing the judges of the common pleas not only ignored the applicable principles of law but also, in effect, usurped the functions and powers exclusively vested in the compensation authorities by undertaking to pass upon the credibility of witnesses, weigh the evidence, and substitute their own findings of fact for those of the board.

About 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of…