Sweeney v. Reading Company

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

John L. Sweeney died from accidental injury on April 2, 1931 and an agreement was entered into by claimant with defendant employer for compensation to her, in her own right as widow, for 300 weeks ending January 1, 1937 and to her on behalf of Francis J. Sweeney, a nephew of decedent, as to whom he had stood in loco parentis, for a term ending June 17, 1937. It was not until February 17, 1937, after her compensation as widow had been paid in full in accordance with the agreement, that claimant for the first time asserted a claim for compensation on behalf of another alleged…