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SAFIN v. JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORP. et al.

166 Pa.Super. 142 (1950)

Safin v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation et al., Appellants.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

January 12, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Challener, Jr., with him Robert H. Strub, Joseph C. Spriggs, Challener & Challener, Thomas McKeen Chidsey, Attorney General, Ralph H. Behney, General Counsel, Samuel Torchia, Assistant Counsel, and M. Leon Tolochko, for appellants.

Samuel Krimsly, for appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., RENO, DITHRICH, ROSS and FINE, JJ. (HIRT and ARNOLD, JJ., absent.)

OPINION BY RENO, J., January 12, 1950:

In this occupational disease case two facts were incontrovertibly established: first, claimant's husband died of lobar pneumonia; and second, he had been exposed to a silica hazard and had contracted silicosis. The compensation authorities were required to decide whether his death was "caused primarily (as definitely distinguished from a contributory or accelerating cause) by silicosis," within the meaning of the Act of July...

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