Reese v. Pennsylvania Railroad

Citations

• 233 Pa. 363
• 82 A. 461
• 1912 Pa. LEXIS 832

Syllabus

<p>Beneficial associations — Railroads—Release—Negligence.</p> <p>1. A member of a railroad employees’ relief association who accepts benefits for an injury sustained in the course of his work cannot, in the absence of fraud inducing the acceptance of the benefits, claim any other or additional damages for such injury.</p> <p>2. Where such a member accepts benefits for an injury, and subsequently accepts benefits for a second injury, the fact that a “return to duty” card may have been improperly issued to him by the company’s physician after his first injury, has no connection with his acceptance of benefits for the second injury.</p>