LEWIS v. LYNCHBURG FOUNDRY COMPANY


130 S.E.2d 429 (1963)

204 Va. 303

Charles James LEWIS v. LYNCHBURG FOUNDRY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

April 22, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beecher E. Stallard, Richmond for appellant.

William W. Sweeney, Lynchburg (Caskie, Frost, Davidson & Watts, Lynchburg, on brief), for appellee.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and BUCHANAN, WHITTLE, SNEAD, I'ANSON and CARRICO, JJ.


BUCHANAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an award of the Industrial Commission which denied compensation to the claimant, Charles James Lewis, for the occupational disease of silicosis, Code, 1950, § 65-44 as amended, on the ground that he did not give notice thereof to his employer, Lynchburg Foundry Company, within the time required by § 65-48 of the Code, 1962 Cum.Supp.

Not being able to agree with his employer as to compensation, Lewis filed...

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