BRANHAM v. INLAND STEEL COMPANY


446 S.W.2d 287 (1969)

Ira BRANHAM, Appellant, v. INLAND STEEL COMPANY et al., etc., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied November 21, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reed D. Anderson, Combs & Anderson, Pikeville, for appellant.

Harry C. Campbell, Pikeville, J. Keller Whitaker, Thomas R. Emerson, Dept. of Labor, Frankfort, for appellees.


OSBORNE, Judge.

In this Workmen's Compensation case the claimant had asked for total disability claiming that he was disabled by a "pulmonary occupational disease." He had worked in the coal mines for nearly forty years and attempted to prove silicosis or pneumoconiosis. However, although the claimant's doctors testified that they saw evidence of pneumoconiosis, the employers' doctors and a doctor appointed by the Board testified that they did not. Doctor Cornish...

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