168 Pa. Super. 543 | Pa. Super. Ct. | 1951
This is a workmen’s compensation case. The referee made an order of disallowance as the claim petition had not been filed within one year after the date of the alleged accident. See section 315 of the Act of June 2, 1915, P. L. 736j as amended by the Act of June 21, 1939, P. L. 520, §1, 77 PS §602. The Workmen’s Compensation Board affirmed the order of disallowance and the court of common pleas affirmed the Board. Claimant has appealed to this Court.
Claimant filed his petition for compensation on April 11, 1949, in which he alleged that he sustained an accidental injury in the course of his employment with defendant on September 16, 1947. Defendant filed an answer admitting the accident and denying claimant’s allegations of continuing disability and of misleading conduct on the part of defendant.
It appears that claimant suffered a head injury on September 16, 1947, when he was struck by a bolt. He was given treatment in a hospital, where he remained for about three hours. Shortly thereafter claimant returned to his employment with defendant and worked until he voluntarily left on January 30, 1948. Claimant was subsequently employed by another employer from August 23, 1948, to January 28, 1949. In April, 1949, he entered Temple University to study radio and television.
At the hearing before the referee on the petition and answer, claimant testified that he had suffered from disabling headaches since the accidental injury on September 16, 1947. Claimant also testified that he had three separate conversations with defendant’s superintendent with respect to medical attention. There is no testimony that the superintendent told him not to file a claim petition or that the superintendent offered to file the claim petition for him or upon his
The Board affirmed the referee’s finding of fact and made the following additional finding:
“2. That the claimant failed to present credible and convincing evidence that his failure to file his claim petition within one year after the accident was in any manner influenced by any misconduct or representations by the defendant or its representatives.”
The Board upon appeal may make its own findings of fact without taking additional testimony; likewise the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be attached to their testimony are for the Board’s consideration. Bronkowski v. Colonial Colliery Co., 153 Pa. Superior Ct. 574, 34 A. 2d 837. See section 423 of the Act of June 2, 1915, P. L. 736, as amended and reenacted by the Act of June 21, 1939, P. L. 520, §1, 77 PS §854.
Our statements in Mackanitz v. Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Co., 157 Pa. Superior Ct. 359, at pages 364, 365, 43 A. 2d 586, at page 589, are appli
The record contains nothing upon which a reversal could be based, and consequently the judgment of the Board upon the evidence must prevail.
Order is affirmed.