Rupchak v. Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

Disability overtook claimant in the course of his employment. The question is: Does the record sustain the specific finding of the referee, affirmed by the board, that his disability resulted from accidental injury on October 19, 1943. Judgment was entered on an award of compensation for partial disability.

The lower court was unable to agree with the board that there was evidence of an accident in the ordinary sense of a fortuitous, unforeseen event, causing an injury. But it did find that claimant’s disability was an unusual effect of a known cause and therefore…