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W. C. A. B., ET AL. v. NAVAJO FRGT., ET AL., APLNTS.

Nos. 1437 and 1438 C.D. 1974.

19 Pa.Commw. 25 (1975)

Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Sorey Bohar, Widow of James S. Sorey, Appellees, v. Navajo Freight Lines, Inc. and Security Mutual Insurance Company, Insurance Carrier, Appellants. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Sorey Bohar, Widow of James S. Sorey, Appellees, v. Navajo Freight Lines, Inc., Appellant.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

May 7, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Kinsley, with him Charles Jay Bogdanoff and Albert C. Gekoski, for appellant.

Gerald J. Haas, for appellee, Bohar.

John F. McElvenny, for appellee, Jones.

James N. Diefenderfer, for appellee, Board.

Argued March 6, 1975, before Judges WILKINSON, JR., MENCER and BLATT, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE MENCER, May 7, 1975:

On the evening of October 10, 1966, James S. Sorey (Sorey) was operating a tractor-trailer rig loaded with 38,000 pounds of heavy equipment and traveling west across Colorado. His destination was Burbank, California, but his fate was such that he would not even reach downtown Pagosa Springs. Upon starting to descend from the top of Wolf Creek Pass, the brakes of his truck became overheated and then caught fire, with the result...

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