GENERAL REFRACTORIES CO. v. HENDERSON


232 S.W.2d 846 (1950)

GENERAL REFRACTORIES CO., Inc. v. HENDERSON et al.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied October 24, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Graves, Louisville, Thomas D. Theobald, Grayson, for appellant.

Davis M. Howerton, Ashland, Leonard C. Fielder, Ashland, for appellees.


CLAY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment upholding an award of the Workmen's Compensation Board, allowing appellee disability benefits for silicosis allegedly contracted while in the employ of appellant. A question of law is determinative of the controversy.

The application was filed in 1945. Under the law then in effect a Medical Committee of physicians, provided for in KRS 342.315 and 342.316, as amended in 1946, heard the evidence and filed...

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