Straub v. Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co.

Opinion by

Parker, J.,

The employer and its'insurance carrier, having appealed from a judgment entered for the claimant in a workmen’s compensation case by a court of common pleas, here principally urge that the petition which formed the basis of the award was presented too late to the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The chronology of the case is therefore important.

The claimant met with an accident on January 11, 1927, while in the employ of the Edward G-. Budd Manufacturing Company and was awarded compensation for 33 weeks. Thereafter, on February 25, 1931, on petition of claimant, an…