Frankel v. International Scrap Iron and Metal Co.

LORD, District Judge.

At a pre-trial conference in the present case, before the Honorable Thomas J. Clary on October 9, 1957, counsel for the plaintiff and counsel for the defendant, International Scrap Iron and Metal Co., Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “International”) obtained approval of the Court to submit for disposition preliminary to the trial of the case, the question of whether International was the statutory employer of the plaintiff’s decedent under the provisions of the Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act.

Argument before this Court was thereafter heard as if a formal motion…