Ellis v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

An operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, on February 25, 1925, for the removal of a cancerous growth from the back of the head of J. P. Ellis, an employe of Jones arid Laughlin Steel Company of Pittsburgh, resulted in his death. His widow, Ida B. Ellis, averring that her husband’s death was attributable to an accidental injury, suffered in the course of his employment during the night of December 16, 1924, filed, in behalf of herself and their young son, a claim petition for compensation under our Workmen’s Compensation Act of June 2, 1915, P. L. 736, and…