Broch v. Lehigh Valley Coal Co.
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Opinion
Claimant’s husband died of pneumonia resulting from unusual exposure during the course of his employment in defendant’s mine. In Jones v. Phila. & Reading Coal & Iron Co., 285 Pa. 317, 320, we held that, “Injury fol *503 lowing an extraordinary exposure to wet and cold, suffered in the course of employment, may be compensable under the workmen’s compensation statutes, on the same principle as a prostration resulting from heat......; so may death from pneumonia caused by an injury or unusual......exposure.” The court below properly decided that the present case was ruled by that decision.
The judgment is affirmed.
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