CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANY v. BROWN


474 S.W.2d 416 (1971)

CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANY, Appellant, v. Elmer J. BROWN, Appellee. CONSOLIDATION COAL COMPANY, Appellant, v. Charlie PHILLIPS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

December 6, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald F. Paine, Knoxville, for appellant.

J.H. Hodges, Knoxville, J. Carson Ridenour, Clinton, for appellee.


OPINION

CRESON, Justice.

This opinion involves two appeals perfected by the employer of the appellees from the Law Division of the Law and Equity Court of Anderson County. The trial judge determined that appellees were suffering from the occupational disease of pneumoconiosis or silicosis which rendered them permanently and totally disabled within the purview of the Workmen's Compensation Law, and that this disease arose out of and in the course of appellees...

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