Morley v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

John A. Morley has appealed from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board which reversed a referee’s decision awarding him benefits for total'disability.

On a day in July 1973, Morley, then 72 years of age and a resident of St. Petersburg, Florida, but who had once been Mayor of Glenfield Borough, Allegheny County, made a social call at the home of his old friend Paul Cernansky, the Glenfield Borough Police Chief. During the visit a telephone message was received informing Chief Cernansky that an automobile accident had occurred a short distance from the…