KAROLY v. JEDDO-HIGHLAND COAL CO. et al.


166 Pa.Super. 571 (1950)

Karoly v. Jeddo-Highland Coal Company, Appellant, et al.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

May 10, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Bigelow, for employer, appellant.

C.A. Whitehouse, Assistant Counsel, with him S.H. Torchia, Assistant Counsel, Ralph H. Behney, Counsel, and T. McKeen Chidsey, Attorney General, for State Workmen's Insurance Fund, appellee.

Thomas L. Kennedy, Jr., for claimant, appellee.

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


OPINION BY RENO, J., May 10, 1950:

Claimant Karoly was totally disabled by anthraco-silicosis on October 26, 1946. There is no dispute about that fact, and he is not a party to this appeal. The only question here presented is: Who shall assume and pay his occupational disease compensation? That controversy is exclusively between Jeddo-Highland Coal Company, appellant, his employer, which until September 1, 1946, was a self-insurer of its own compensation risks, and...

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