Gill v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

This is an appeal by Tillman and Virginia Gill (petitioners) from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed a referee’s award of compensation to Terry Norton (claimant).

Petitioners, during the period of time in question here, ran a laundromat in Philadelphia. Prior to December of 1976 they were in the process of purchasing the building next door to the laundromat in order to eventually move the laundromat into that facility. Petitioners engaged claimant and several other boys to do such cleaning. Claimant worked on a full-time…