Walsh v. Penn Anthracite Mining Co.

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

The claimant’s husband, on December 11, 1936, while in the course of his employment with the defendant coal company fractured his right hip. He was taken to a hospital and treated there until February 28,1937, when he was discharged and driven to his home, a couple of miles distant. Three days later he was taken back to the hospital suffering from lobar pneumonia, of which disease, complicated by pleurisy, he died there on March 7, 1937.

The proceedings following the filing of a claim for compensation were lengthy and somewhat complicated. They would have been…