Hobday v. Compensation Commissioner

Rose, Judge:

From the allowance of compensation for the death of Robert P. Hobday, claimed to have resulted from silicosis, to Frances Hobday, his widow, made by the State Compensation Commissioner, and confirmed on appeal by the Compensation Appeal Board, this appeal was granted on application of the employer, Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation.

This corporation since 1930 has owned and operated an extensive plant near Berkeley Springs in Morgan County for the quarrying and the preparation of glass sand. The deceased’s work in this plant began in 1927, and ended in 1937. For one year within…