BLACK DIAMOND COAL MINING CO. v. WILSON

6 Div. 640.

147 So.2d 810 (1962)

BLACK DIAMOND COAL MINING CO. v. William WILSON.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 29, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, for appellant

Ross, Ross & Ross, Bessemer, for appellee.

Norman K. Brown, Bessemer, and Carl G. Moebes, Woodward, amici curiae.


COLEMAN, Justice.

This is a petition by an employer for certiorari to review a judgment awarding workmen's compensation to an employee for occupational pneumoconiosis allegedly suffered by him while employed as a miner. Section 297, Title 26, Code 1940.

Petitioner asserts that the testimony "is legally insufficient to prove `disability' as that word is used in the Workmen's Compensation Act."

We think there is sufficient legal evidence to sustain the...

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