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HUTCHESON v. WEYERHAEUSER CO.

WCB No. 76-6467; CA 10190.

584 P.2d 371 (1978)

36 Or.App. 497

In the matter of the Compensation of Earl HUTCHESON, Claimant, Respondent, v. WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY, Petitioner.

Court of Appeals of Oregon.

Decided October 2, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ridgway K. Foley, Jr., Portland, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were Ancer L. Haggerty, Roger A. Luedtke, and Souther, Spaulding, Kinsey, Williamson & Schwabe, Portland.

Robert K. Udziela, Portland, argued the cause for respondent. On the brief were Jan Thomas Baisch, and Pozzi, Wilson, Atchison, Kahn & O'Leary, Portland.

Before Johnson, P.J., and GILLETTE and ROBERTS, JJ.

ROBERTS, Judge.

This is a workers' compensation claim for occupational disease in which the referee denied the claim and the Workers' Compensation Board reversed the referee. We agree with the referee that claimant's condition is not compensable.

Claimant is a 48-year-old male who had been employed by Weyerhaeuser for approximately 10 years. Claimant suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was hospitalized in 1967 for recurrent sinusitis and...

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