Bethlehem Steel Co. v. Munday

This is an appeal by the Bethlehem Steel Company, employer and self-insurer in a workmen’s compensation case in which an award for permanent total disability benefits for the employee made by the State Industrial Accident Commission was sustained on appeal by a judgment of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County.

On appeal, the case was submitted to a jury on issues which, among others, required findings as to the causal relation between the accident and the claimant’s disability and, the effect, if any, of a pre-existing disease on the claimant’s disability. The jury, in answering the issues,…