ABBOTTS DAIRIES ET AL. v. W. C. A. B. ET AL.

No. 698 C.D. 1977.

38 Pa.Commw. 423 (1978)

Abbotts Dairies and Its Insurer, American Mutual Liability Ins. Co., Petitioners v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Betty Yates, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

November 8, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Craven, with him, of counsel, John J. Coffey and Marshall, Dennehey & Warner, for Abbotts Dairies and its insurer American Mutual Liability Ins. Co.

John H. Clark, Jr., for Betty M. Yates.

Argued June 9, 1978, before Judges CRUMLISH, JR., BLATT and DiSALLE, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE BLATT, November 8, 1978:

Abbotts Dairies (Abbotts) and its insurer, Mutual Liability Insurance Co., appeal to this Court from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board), which reversed a referee's denial of compensation to Betty Yates (Claimant), the widow of Edward Yates (decedent).

The decedent was employed by Abbotts as a milkman for twenty-two years. On March 12, 1974, while driving his milk truck, he was fatally injured...

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