BUTLER CTY. MEM. HOSP. ET AL., v. W.C.A.B. ET AL.

No. 789 C.D. 1974.

17 Pa.Commw. 573 (1975)

Butler County Memorial Hospital and Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance Company, Insurance Carrier, Appellants, v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Madeline F. Kearns, Appellees.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

March 7, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Corwyn M. Coulter, with him Coulter, Gilchrist, Dillon & McCandless, for appellants.

Robert F. Hawk, with him James N. Diefenderfer, for appellees.

Argued January 10, 1975, before Judges KRAMER, WILKINSON, JR. and MENCER, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE KRAMER, March 7, 1975:

This is an appeal filed by the Butler County Memorial Hospital (Butler Hospital) from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) dated May 23, 1974, in which the Board affirmed a referee's award of workmen's compensation to Madeline F. Kearns (Kearns).

Kearns had been employed by Butler Hospital as a nurse's aide for about five years, to April 18, 1973. At about 5:30 in the evening on that date, while...

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