BEECHWOOD COAL CO. v. LUCAS

[No. 67, September Term, 1957.]

215 Md. 248 (1958)

137 A.2d 680

BEECHWOOD COAL COMPANY ET AL. v. LUCAS

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 16, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Howard Holzer, Special Assistant Attorney General, with whom were C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, U. Theodore Hayes and Ernest N. Cory, Jr., Special Assistant Attorneys General, Thomas B. Finan and Leslie J. Clark on the brief, for the appellants.

William L. Wilson, with whom was Edward J. Ryan on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.


BRUNE, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Allegany County affirming the action of the State Industrial Accident Commission which had awarded the claimant compensation for injuries resulting in total disability from an occupational disease.

William J. Lucas, claimant-appellee, fifty-four years of age, worked in the bituminous coal mines for thirty-four...

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