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The Commonwealth Court affirmed the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board's award of specific loss of eye benefits and counsel fees to the claimant, holding that the uncorrected vision standard applies even where binocular vision is achieved with a corrective lens.
Appeal, No. 340, Jan. T., 1892, by defendants, James M. Place and Rufus R. Wilson, from judgment of Q. S. Schuylkill Co., March T.; 1891, No. 175, on indictment for libel. Indictment for libel. The indictment set forth the following publication: “ ’Tis the talk of the town.” “ The racy sensation now exciting the Pottsville people. The woman is married, so is the ‘ man who has suddenly gone south for his health, accompanied by his spouse. What rumor has to say about it.” ‘‘ Pottsville, Pa., January 24th. Never in Pottsville’s history has she been so excited over a scandal, as that which has been brought to light through the enterprise of the ‘ Pennsylvania Telegram; ’ imperfect as the details were, the people seemed to recognize at once that the town was becoming something of a city, so far as racy doings were concerned, than the most fastidious roué could have wished. “The Womelsdorf — Moyer story has not been half told. There have been all sorts of rumors afloat, but all efforts to get the interested parties to talk have failed. Though it certainly would not have come to the public gaze if they had not done too much talking in the first place. It now appears the lady is married. She was married in a home prepared for her and elegantly furnished by a lover, who thought he had been the sole participant in her secret love. At that wedding the o.) rriage of the girl’s employer played a prominent part. Horses, carriage, coachman and employer’s wife and son were at the wedding. The preacher was brought in another cab. Pretty high toned wedding for a young man, who only three months before was said to be on his uppers because he lost his last ten dollars at the Oresona races, when a man with a little black ball and the halves of an English walnut shell pulled in the multitude. “ Your reporter approached this unhappy young man. He refused to talk. He said that there was not a bit of truth in the stories. He said he did not inten
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