BOONE v. W. C. A. B. ET AL.

No. 1708 C.D. 1977.

43 Pa.Commw. 452 (1979)

Lewis N. Boone, Widower of Alice, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Elco Corporation, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

June 20, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Silva, with him Jack E. Feinberg, for petitioner.

Stanley H. Siegel, with him Siegel and Siegel, and James N. Diefenderfer, for respondents.

Submitted on briefs, September 14, 1978, to Judges CRUMLISH, JR., ROGERS and CRAIG, sitting as a panel of three. Resubmitted and orally argued April 3, 1979, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, DiSALLE, CRAIG and MacPHAIL. Judges ROGERS and BLATT did not participate.


PER CURIAM OPINION, June 20, 1979:

This is a petition for review seeking reversal of a denial of a claim for workmen's compensation benefits to Lewis N. Boone (claimant) for the death of his wife (decedent).

Decedent, an employee of the Elco Huntington Corporation (Elco), died on Elco's premises on October 23, 1972, after being shot by a co-employee, Blair Neal, who subsequently took his own life. Claimant filed a fatal claim petition which the referee denied...

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