Hornetz v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.

Hornetz v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., 120 A. 662 (Pa. 1923)

Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · State Highest Courts
Decided: March 19, 1923
Docket: Nos. , No. 45
Judges: Frazer, Kephart, Moschziskee, Schaffer, Walling
Citations: 120 A. 662277 Pa. 401923 Pa. LEXIS 359

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Opinion of the Court

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Per Curiam,

We adopt the following excerpts from the opinion of the court below: “In this case claimant’s husband sustained a compound fracture of the index finger of Ms *41 right hand, in the course of his employment, on the 31st of March, 1921. He went to the State Hospital at Fountain Springs the next day [to be] operated on by Doctor J. C. Biddle......His death was due to dilatation of his heart, which was caused by the anesthetic administered to him for the purpose of performing a surgical operation on his injured finger. The injury to his finger was ‘violence to the physical structure of his body’...... The violence caused the injury, .the injury caused the operation, the operation caused the ansesthetization, the ansesthetization caused dilatation of the heart and dilatation of the heart caused death. Hence there was a causal connection between the [original] violence and [the subsequent] death.”

It is necessary to add only that there is ample testimony to sustain the award made by the referee and approved by the compensation board and the court below.

Judgment affirmed.

How later courts describe this case

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(allowing compensation, and implicitly subrogation, where there was a causal relationship between the work-related finger injury and the employee's death due to a heart complication)

Brubacher Excavating, Inc. v. Workers' Comp. Appeal Bd., 835 A.2d 1273 (Pa. 2003)

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Powell v. Sacred Heart Hospital514 A.2d 241 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 1986)
Fehr v. YMCA, Pottsville201 Pa. Super. 107 (1963)
Royko v. Logan Coal Co.22 A.2d 434 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1941)
Marshall v. Pittsburgh180 A. 733 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1935)
Baker v. Wycoff79 P.2d 77 (Utah 1938)

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Brubacher Excavating, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board835 A.2d 1273 (Pa. 2003)
Brubacher Excavating, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board774 A.2d 1274 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2001)
Powell v. Sacred Heart Hospital514 A.2d 241 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 1986)
Pittsburgh Hyatt House, Inc. v. Commonwealth437 A.2d 461 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 1981)
Cherneskie v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.70 Pa. D. & C.2d 605 (1974)
Vogel v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.289 A.2d 158 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1972)

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