CITY OF MONESSEN ET AL. v. W C. A. B. ET AL.

No. 727 C.D. 1977.

36 Pa.Commw. 226 (1978)

City of Monessen and Bituminous Insurance Companies, Petitioners v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board, Dianne Galanoudis, Widow of Spiro Galanoudis, Police Pension Fund of the City of Monessen and School District of the City of Monessen, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

June 22, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George H. Thompson, with him Hirsch, Weise & Tillman, for petitioners.

Charles Skomski and Thomas Anton, with them James N. Diefenderfer, for respondents.

Argued March 2, 1978, before Judges WILKINSON, JR., MENCER and BLATT, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE MENCER, June 22, 1978:

The City of Monessen and its insurance carrier have appealed from a decision of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board that Spiro Galanoudis was an employee of the City at the time of his death and that the City was therefore obligated to pay workmen's compensation benefits to his widow. We affirm.

On October 19, 1973, Spiro Galanoudis, a regular policeman in the general employ of the City of Monessen, was killed when...

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