BILCHAK v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COM'R

Nos. 12811, 12812.

168 S.E.2d 723 (1969)

Anna BILCHAK, Widow of Michael Bilchak v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSIONER and Hancock Manufacturing Company. Sally Ann DURST, Widow of Roe C. Durst v. STATE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSIONER and Hancock Manufacturing Company.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided July 1, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles D. Bell, Wellsburg, for appellants.

Pinsky, Mahan, Barnes & Watson, Raymond A. Hinerman, Wellsburg, for appellees.


BERRY, Judge.

These appeals from the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board which were consolidated for the purposes of argument and decision in this Court involve identical matters. The claimants, Anna Bilchak, widow of Michael Bilchak, and Sally Ann Durst, widow of Roe C. Durst, were denied compensation by the Workmen's Compensation Commissioner for the deaths of their husbands who were drowned in the Ohio River while attempting to row a boat across the river from...

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