Meucci v. Gallatin Coal Co.

Citations

• 279 Pa. 184
• 123 A. 766
• 1924 Pa. LEXIS 698

Syllabus

<p>Workmen’s compensation — Premises of employer — Assault by other employee — Quarrel in connection with employment.</p> <p>1. The word “premises” as meant by the Compensation Act, does not include all property owned by the employer, but embraces that used in connection with the actual place of work where the employer carries on the business in which the employee is engaged.</p> <p>2. It may coyer a public road used and maintained by the employer for the operation of his business and affairs.</p> <p>3. Proof that property is employed by the employer in the conduct of its affairs is not enough by itself; the claimant must further show that his presence therein at the time of the injury was required by the nature of his employment.</p> <p>4. Where a miner is struck and injured by the foreman in a quarrel growing out of a dispute as to the number of cars taken out by claimant, the injury occurs in the course of the employment and is compensable.</p>