BUCYRUS-ERIE CO. v. W. C. A. B. (HOLLAND)

No. 1968 C.D. 1982.

73 Pa.Commw. 201 (1983)

Bucyrus-Erie Company, Petitioner v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Holland, w/o James R., Sr. and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania), Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

March 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Hurtt, with him Robert F. Prorok, Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, for petitioner.

Edwin H. Beachler, McArdle, Caroselli, Spagnolli & Beachler, for respondents, Betty L. Holland w/o James R. Holland, Sr.

Submitted on briefs February 28, 1983, to Judges ROGERS, CRAIG and MacPHAIL, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, March 31, 1983:

Bucyrus-Erie Company appeals from a Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board order affirming a referee's award of benefits to the widow of James R. Holland (claimant) under those sections of The Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act governing the occupational disease of silicosis.1 We affirm.

Based on the testimony of three doctors,2 the referee found that the claimant...

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