· 7/1/1856
Sames's Appeal
Citations
- 26 Pa. 184
How courts have described this case
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- noting that incarceration will not work a forfeiture of workers’ compensation benefits
- interpreting prior version of Act and noting, “Often forgotten or overlooked is the fundamental premise that when the employer and the employee accept the provisions of the Act[,] their relations become contractual and the employee receives the right to compensation under the statute.”
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Judges: Woodward
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