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DUGGAN v. W.C.A.B. (LITCHFIELD TP.)

131 Pa.Commw. 184 (1990)

569 A.2d 1022

Musette DUGGAN, Miles French, Deceased, Petitioner, v. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD (LITCHFIELD TOWNSHIP), Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided February 7, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Dowd, Dowd and Kocsis, Athens, for petitioner.

Matthew D. Dempsey, Lenahan & Dempsey, P.C., Scranton, for respondent, Litchfield Township.

Before CRAIG and BARRY, JJ., and BLATT, Senior Judge.

OPINION

BARRY, Judge.

This is a petition for review of an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a referee's decision which denied the fatal claim petition of Musette Duggan (Claimant). Claimant's petition arose out of the work-related death of Miles B. French (Decedent), Claimant's alleged common law husband, on August 14, 1986. We affirm.

At the referee's hearing, the parties stipulated that Decedent died in the course...

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