Leary v. McIlvain

Citations

• 263 Pa. 499
• 106 A. 785
• 1919 Pa. LEXIS 461

Syllabus

<p>Workmen’s Compensation Act — Death—Findings of board— Course of employment — Evidence.</p> <p>A decision, of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, holding that a woman was entitled to compensation for the death of her husband, as the result of an accident or injury occurring in the course of his employment, will be sustained where the evidence tended to show that the deceased was found dead at 7:80 p. m. of a December evening, lying between the wheels of a wagon, which he was driving to the stable at the end of his day’s work, that the wheel of the wagon, as well as the body of deceased, upon which there were bruises and blood stains, were in a gully or washout when discovered ; that deceased was a sober man, and in good health at the time of his death; and that the report of the coroner’s physician stated that death was probably due to bodily injuries.</p>