GIVEN, Judge.
Claimant, Blanche Peak, filed her claim as widow and dependent of Robert Henry Peak, a former employee of Winding Gulf Collieries Company, before the State Compensation Commissioner, on January 28, 1953. On February 18, 1955, the commissioner denied the widow's claim, "on the ground that claimant did not die from silicosis in its third stage accompanied by tuberculosis". Upon appeal, the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board, on August 22, 1955, affirmed...
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