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YOCOM v. KEENE

512 S.W.2d 27 (1974)

James R. YOCOM, Commissioner of Labor and Custodian of the Special Fund, Appellant, v. Poyster KEENE et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

May 31, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Hawkins, Chief Counsel for Special Fund, Dept. of Labor, Arthur R. Samuel, Counsel for Special Fund, Dept. of Labor, Frankfort, for appellant.

Charles E. Lowe, Lowe, Lowe & Stamper, Pikeville, for appellees.

VANCE, Commissioner.

This is an appeal by the Special Fund from the judgment of the Pike Circuit Court sustaining an award of the Workmen's Compensation Board for total and permanent disability resulting from the occupational disease of pneumoconiosis and/or silicosis.

The claimant-appellee, Poyster Keene, was employed for approximately twenty years as an underground coal miner. On or about May 1, 1972, he ceased...

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