COMA v. HUDSON COAL CO.


166 Pa.Super. 503 (1950)

Coma v. Hudson Coal Company, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

April 12, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis D. Mahon, with him R.S. Houck, for appellant.

Ralph P. Needle, with him Thomas L. Kennedy, Jr., for appellee.

Before RHODES, P.J., HIRT, RENO, DITHRICH, ROSS and ARNOLD, JJ.


OPINION BY DITHRICH, J., April 12, 1950:

Claimant, while employed as a miner or a miner's laborer by defendant, contracted anthraco-silicosis. He was last employed February 5, 1947. He had consulted a physician January 20 of that year and was advised to seek work outside the mine. Being unable to do the work assigned to him he asked his foreman for lighter work, and upon being told that none was available he sought work outside the mine and continued to do so until...

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