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YOCUM v. LESTER

544 S.W.2d 234 (1976)

James R. YOCUM, Commissioner of Labor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and Custodian of the Special Fund, Successor to George R. Wagoner, Acting Commissioner, Appellant, v. Isaac LESTER et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

November 12, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth E. Hollis, Asst. Counsel, Dept. of Labor, Louisville, Earl M. Cornett, Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Labor, Frankfort, for appellant.

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

CLAYTON, Justice.

This appeal results from a workmen's compensation claim for total disability benefits for pneumoconiosis. Lay and medical evidence presented below indicated appellee Isaac Lester to have labored some thirty years as a coal miner, the first twenty-five for the Buchanan County Coal Corporation, in Big Rock, Virginia, and the remaining five years with the Kentucky Carbon Corporation of Phelps, Kentucky, and that his disease was the accumulative result...

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