Bowden v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

Dorothy Bowden (claimant) appeals to this Court from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a referee’s- order which denied her compensation after finding that she was not the surviving widow of Joseph Bowden (Bowden).

The sole issue before us is whether or not the Board committed an error of law when it concluded that claimant had failed to prove a common law marriage to Bowden, who was accidently killed while in the course of his employment. The claimant contends that the Board erred in requiring her to prove that she and Bowden had…