Oskin v. Wheeling Steel Corp.

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

This is a workmen’s compensation case under The Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act of June 21, 1939, P. L. 566, No. 284, as amended, 77. PS § 1201 et, seq. Claimant, on June 16,1945, filed a claim petition against his employer in which he set forth that he became totally disabled as the result of silicosis on March 31,1945, and that he had been employed in an occupation having a silica hazard from 1927 to March 31,1945. The answers denied that claimant became totally disabled on or about March 31,1945, as the result of an occupational disease, and that he had been…