UNITED STATES STEEL CORP. v. WELLS


650 S.W.2d 264 (1983)

UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, Appellant, v. John Calhoun WELLS, successor to Eugene F. Land, Commissioner of Labor and Custodian of the Special Fund, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

April 8, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Rice, Rice & Huff, Harlan, for appellant.

Denis S. Kline, Asst. Counsel, Dept. of Labor, Louisville, for appellee.

Before McDONALD, REYNOLDS and WILHOIT, JJ.


WILHOIT, Judge.

The United States Steel Corporation appeals from a judgment of the Harlan Circuit Court holding it liable for payment of $10.00 weekly as its share of an award for occupational disease. The appellant maintains that its share should be no more than $2.75 weekly.

The following excerpt from the trial court's judgment sets out the salient facts of this case and reaches what we believe to be the correct result:

On April 4, 1978, the Workers...

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