Reed v. Commonwealth, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

*180OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

These cases present a question of first impression under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. § 1 et seq.: Whether an employe’s right to receive specific loss compensation rather than total disability compensation after the loss of “both hands or both arms or both feet or both legs or both eyes” within the meaning of 77 P.S. § 513(23) survives him.

Under the Act, an employe who has lost both legs or the use of both eyes may receive either total disability compensation or compensation for his specific losses. 77 P.S. § 513…