TINKER v. BESSEMER COAL, IRON & LAND COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 4843.

227 F.Supp. 710 (1964)

William B. TINKER v. BESSEMER COAL, IRON & LAND COMPANY.

United States District Court E. D. Tennessee, N. D.

January 30, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul E. Parker, O'Neil, Jarvis, Parker & Williamson, Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiff.

Louis C. Woolf, Knoxville, Tenn., for defendant.


ROBERT L. TAYLOR, Chief Judge.

This action was filed to recover workmen's compensation benefits under the Workmen's Compensation Law of Tennessee.

Plaintiff worked for defendant from 1937 until 1957 in its coal mine and during that time contracted occupational diseases, including silicosis, emphysema, bilateral pulmonary fibrosis, pneumonosconiosis, anthracosis, and bronchitis.

The occupational disease, or anthracosis, was not diagnosed until September...

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