Pathe Exchange, Inc. v. Court of Common Pleas

Pee CtrErAM.

The relator was injured on June 16th, 1922, in the course of his employment by a fall from a spiral staircase where he was working. On July 23d, 1923, he filed a formal petition with the workmen’s compensation bureau for compensation under the Compensation act. To this petition an answer was interposed by the employer denying that compensation was paid to July 26th, 1922, as claimed in the petition, and asserting that no compensation was paid after July 23d, 1923; and, further, that the claim of petitioner for compensation is forever barred by reason of the fact that no petition…