Scranton Corp. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

J udge Babbieri,

Scranton Corporation, employer, and its insurer, Employers Fire Insurance Company (Petitioners), appeal here from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed a referee’s decision awarding compensation to Sylvania Morris, widow of John Morris, deceased employee, on the ground that the death of her husband was due to occupational disease.1

Deceased employee, John Morris, was awarded compensation during his lifetime for total disability due to occupational disease involving his lungs after *606fifty-four years of exposure to cotton dust in his…