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YELLOW FREIGHT SYSTEM, INC. v. W. C. A. B. ET AL.

No. 1797 C.D. 1979.

56 Pa.Commw. 1 (1981)

Yellow Freight System, Inc., Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Janice C. Madara, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

January 5, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher S. Underhill, Hartman, Underhill & Brubaker, for petitioner.

Richard F. Boyer, for respondent, Janice C. Madara.

Argued June 6, 1980, before Judges WILKINSON, JR., MacPHAIL and WILLIAMS, JR., sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE WILLIAMS, JR., January 5, 1981:

This is an appeal by employer Yellow Freight System, Inc. (Yellow) from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a fatal claim award to Janice C. Madara (claimant). The claimant is the widow of Francis C. Madara, Jr., who was killed on October 2, 1976, when the tractor-trailer he was driving for Yellow veered off the highway, rolled down an embankment and overturned.

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