Hancock v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 64, Jan. T., 1919, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Schuylkill Co., March T., 1918, No. 234, affirming award of Workmen’s Compensation Board, in case of Margaret L. Hancock v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company. Appeal from award of Workmen’s Compensation Board. Before Bechtel, P. J. The court affirmed the award and dismissed the appeal. Error assigned was in discharging exceptions to the award.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The sole contention of the appellant is that at the time the deceased was killed he was engaged in moving interstate commerce cars. This was a question of fact, and the finding of the compensation board was that the cars of coal in the train upon which the deceased was working were being transported from the mines to different yards within the State, for the convenience of the shipper, and that the subsequent shipments of any of them upon which the deceased had worked to a point without the State were made after Ms death and after the train crew with which he had worked had severed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Poluskiewicz v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1917
3Cited by3 opinions
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