State Workmen's Insurance Fund v. Young

Opinion by

Judge Kramer,

This is an appeal from an Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Carbon County dated October 9,1970, sustaining the appeal of Ellen Young (appellee) and vacating the order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board (Board) dated June 6,1962, which had dismissed the fatal injury claim of appellee arising from the death of her husband, Russell A. Young.

The facts giving rise to the claim were that appellee’s husband, an officer in the Pennsylvania. State Police with about 12 years of service, died on May 18, 1957, at about 7:30 p.m., of a coronary occlusion resulting from a…