VAVRO v. W. C. A. B. ET AL.

No. 2896 C.D. 1980.

63 Pa.Commw. 462 (1981)

Elizabeth B. Vavro, Widow of Method F. Vavro, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Bethlehem Mines, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

December 29, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Bressi, Jr., for petitioner.

Timothy Lenahan, with him Joseph A. Lach, Lenahan & Dempsey, P.C., for respondents.

Argued September 17, 1981, before Judges MENCER, WILLIAMS, JR. and PALLADINO, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE PALLADINO, December 29, 1981:

Claimant-widow appeals an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which reversed a referee's order sustaining her fatal claim petition in accordance with Section 301(c)(2) of The Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act (Act), Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. § 411 (2).1 We affirm the Board's order denying benefits.

The referee found that...

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