WEBB v. STATE COMPENSATION COM'R

No. 10503.

76 S.E.2d 248 (1953)

WEBB v. STATE COMPENSATION COM'R.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided February 10, 1953.

Dissenting Opinion June 11, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meadows & Wilson, Beckley, for appellant.

Mahan, White & Higgins, Fayetteville, for appellee.


GIVEN, Judge.

In this appeal from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board, denying benefits to a dependent claimant, we have for determination a question as to whether a widow of an employee, who was granted an award for silicosis in the third stage, under the 1945 Act of the Legislature, Chapter 131, the employee not having died until after the effective date of the 1949 Amendment to that Act, may recover benefits, notwithstanding the employee did not...

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