Karpati v. Cambria Steel Co.

Citations

• 70 Pa. Super. 202
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 210

Syllabus

<p>Workmen’s compensation — Practice, O. P. — Appeals—Findings.</p> <p>An appeal to the Court of Common Pleas under the Workmen’s Compensation Act, is in the nature of a certiorari, all questions of fact being left to the deliberation of the compensation board. On an appeal from the Common Pleas to the Superior Court, the latter court may examine the opinion of the Court of Common Pleas to ascertain the grounds of its action. Where the opinion discloses the facts on which the judgment is based, the appellate court may inquire whether they support the conclusions reached.</p> <p>A widow is not living with her husband at the time of his death or “actually dependent upon him for support” within the- meaning of the act, where the evidence shows that the husband and wife were married in February, 1914, and lived with the wife’s parents in New York, the wife being dependent on her husband for support, except as to rent and board for a year which the parents agreed to provide; that subsequently they moved to New Jersey, and thereafter the wife in June, 1915, returned to her parents, and the husband went to Pennsylvania to secure work; that while working there in a steel works he was killed in January, 1916, and that the husband never communicated with his wife nor furnished her funds, although he knew where she was.</p>