GIBSON v. BLUE DIAMOND COAL COMPANY


342 S.W.2d 698 (1961)

Elijah GIBSON, Appellant, v. BLUE DIAMOND COAL COMPANY et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

February 3, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. W. Napier, Hazard, for appellant.

J. W. Craft, Jr., Hazard, for appellees.


CLAY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment confirming an order of the Workmen's Compensation Board which denied the employee-appellant's compensation claim for disability caused by silicosis.

The employee had worked in coal mines for forty years and had been exposed more or less continuously to rock dust and sand. In 1951 he was employed by appellee. At that time he had already contracted the "disease" of silicosis although it had not reached the...

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