Berdy v. Glen Alden Corp.

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

This is an appeal by claimant from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County affirming the Workmen’s Compensation Board which refused compensation for the death of her husband under the Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act of June 21, 1939, P. L. 566, as amended, 77 PS §1201 et seq.

In this case, as in Zimmiski v. Lehigh Valley Coal Company, 200 Pa. Superior Ct. 524, 189 A. 2d 897, claimant contends that her husband’s death by suicide was caused by and resulted from anthraco-silicosis. In the Zimmiski case the referee and the board found against the…