P.P.G. INDUSTRIES, INC. v. AITES et al.

Appeal, No. 903 C.D. 1972.

7 Pa.Commw. 588 (1973)

P.P.G. Industries, Inc. v. Aites, et al.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

February 27, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace E. Edgecombe, with him Royston, Robb, Leonard, Edgecombe, Miller & Urbanik, for appellant.

Ralph A. Davies, with him Thomson, Rhodes & Grigsby, for appellee.

Argued January 12, 1973, before Judges CRUMLISH, JR., MENCER and ROGERS, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE ROGERS, February 27, 1973:

This workmen's compensation case presents for our decision the issue of whether a partially disabled employee loses his right to compensation by quitting a job provided by his employer at no loss of earnings in order to enter a profession where the emoluments of his new calling prove to be insufficient to his needs and he is thereafter unable because of his disability to find other employment.

The claimant, Virgil...

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