Bolden v. Greer

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Bolden v. Greer, 257 Pa. 513 (Pa. 1917)
101 A. 816; 1917 Pa. LEXIS 768
Brown, Frazer, Moschzisker, Stewart, Walling

Bolden v. Greer

Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Brown,

This appeal is by The Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York from the action of the court below affirming an award by the Workmen’s Compensation Board to an injured employee. If this company has any standing as an appellant, its right to appeal must be found in Section 425 of the Act of June 2, 1915, P. L. 736. By that section an implied right to appeal is given to any party interested in a proceeding instituted under the act, but it must affirmatively appear from the record that the party appealing is so interested. At no stage of this proceeding did appellant ask to be allowed to intervene as an interested party. True, it filed an answer for the employer, to the petition of employee for an award of compensation, and appealed for the employer from the award; but nowhere in the proceeding, either before the referee, the compensation board or the court below, does it appear that it was an insurance carrier, carrying insurance covering the case of the appellee. Orderly pro- ' cedure requires that a party claiming to be interested in .^proceeding conducted under the Workmen’s Compensation Act shall make himself a party to the record by asking to intervene, unless it affirmatively appears from the record itself that he is actually a party in interest. As the record in the case before us discloses no right of *515appeal in the appellant, appellee’s contention that its appeal be quashed must prevail.

Appeal quashed.

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Workmen's Compensation Law — PaHies in interest — Appeal by party not of record — Insurance company — Failure to intervene— Appeals — Practice, Supreme Court — Quashing appeals. A party claiming to be interested in a proceeding conducted under the Workmen’s Compensation Act should make himself a party to the record by asking to intervene unless it affirmatively appears from the record that he is actually a party in interest; an appeal by an insurance company from an order of court affirming an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board will be quashed where the record does not show that appellant had any interest in the proceeding, and it is not material that it had filed an answer for the employer to the petition of the, employee for an award of compensation for the employer and appealed for the employer from the award.