Hood v. Pennsylvania R. R.

Rupp, J.,

This is an appeal by claimant-appellant from the action of the Workmen’s Compensation Board in affirming the referee’s findings of fact, conclusions of law and order disallowing her and her three minor children compensation for the death of the husband-father, Ira Dice Hood, an employe of defendant-appellee.

The referee found decedent, a resident of Mifflintown, Juniata County, was from the end of December 1943 until January 30,1944, employed by defendant as a fireman on shifting engines in its Enola yards, Cumberland County. Because of the distance involved in traveling to and from…