Dunn v. Trego

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,

Defendant and its insurance carrier appeal from an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, sustained by the court below.

It appears that, in 1918, a labor shortage led the North Chester Realty Co., defendant, who was engaged in a building operation at Upland, Pa., to procure certain skilled labor in Philadelphia. For this purpose it arranged with Trego, one of its foremen, who at the time was furnishing truck service in connection with the work, to procure workmen, and to transport Philadelphia laborers to and from the operation; the arrangement being…