Schrock v. Stonycreek Coal Co.

Opinion by

Eeno, J.,

In this workmen’s compensation case, the referee and the board found “that the claimant’s disabled condition, dating from December 30, 1939, was the result of a luetic dementia and that this condition was unrelated either directly or indirectly to the slight trauma which he sustained on that date”. The court below dismissed claimant’s appeal.

According to claimant’s testimony, while he was lifting a lump of coal into a mine car it broke, and when he straightened up he struck his head against the roof of the mine tunnel. He made no complaint to the fellow-employee who worked…