DAUGHERTY v. WATTS


419 S.W.2d 137 (1967)

Ray DAUGHERTY and Carl Billiter, d/b/a D and B Coal Company, Appellants, v. Hudson WATTS and the Workmen's Compensation Board, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

September 29, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred B. Redwine, Sanders & Redwine, Pikeville, for appellants.

Kelsey E. Friend, Friend & Mullins, Pikeville, for appellees.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

The appeal is from a judgment upholding an order of the Workmen's Compensation Board which reopened a previous agreed award under which the appellee Hudson Watts had been given compensation on the basis that 57.2 percent of his disability (total) was due to silicosis, and substituted a new award giving him compensation on the basis of 100 percent disability from silicosis.

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