Case Name: Halapy, Appellant, v. Peters Creek Gas Coal Co.
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1922-07-13
Citations: 79 Pa. Super. 196
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 75
Parties: Halapy, Appellant, v. Peters Creek Gas Coal Co.
Judges: Before Orlady, P. J., Porter, Henderson, Trexler, Keller, Linn and Gawthrop, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 79
Pages: 196–197

Head Matter:
Halapy, Appellant, v. Peters Creek Gas Coal Co.
Workmen’s Compensation Law, section 806 (c) — Loss of one eye —Claim for total disability — Allowance for partial disability.
An employee, who having previously lost the sight of one eye subsequently loses the sight of the other by reason of an accident in the course of his employment is entitled to 50 per cent of his wages for 125 weeks. He is not entitled to compensation for total disability under section 306 (a) of the Workmen’s Compensation Law, but is restricted to compensation for loss of the use of an eye under the provisions of section 306 (c).
Lenti v. Lucci, 000 Pa. 000, followed.
Argued April 17, 1922.
Appeal, No. 75, April T., 1922, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Washington County, Feb. T., 1921, No. 120, affirming award of Workmen’s Compensation Board in the case of Michael Halapy v. Peters Creek Gas Coal Company and State Workmen’s Insurance Company.
Before Orlady, P. J., Porter, Henderson, Trexler, Keller, Linn and Gawthrop, JJ.
Affirmed.
Appeal from award of Workmen’s Compensation Board. Before McIlvaine, P. J.
From the record it appeared that the claimant made a claim for total disability under the provisions of section 306 (a) of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. The referee awarded him compensation at the rate of 50 per cent of $20, or $10 per week for a period of 125 weeks, in accordance with the provisions of section 306 (c) of the Workmen’s Compensation Law. An appeal was taken to the Workmen’s Compensation Board, which sustained the award of the referee.
Other facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court.
The court sustained the award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Plaintiff appealed.
July 13, 1922:
Error assigned, among others, was the decree of the court.
J. Boyd Crumrine, of Acheson & Crumrine, for plaintiff.
Samuel L. Spylcer, Attorney for State Workmen’s Insurance Fund, and with him George E. Alter, Attorney General, for appellee.

Opinion:
Pee Cueiam,
The appellant at the time of entering the employ of the appellee coal company had only one eye. He lost this eye in the course of his employment, rendering him totally blind. He claimed compensation for total disability but was awarded the amount allowed for the loss of one eye.
The judgment of the court below sustaining the award of the compensation bureau must be affirmed on the opinion of the Supreme Court in Lenti v. Lucci, decided June 24,1922, but not yet reported.
Judgment affirmed.