Clary v. A. M. Smyre Manufacturing Co.

WHICHARD, Judge.

I

On 15 June 1978 plaintiff filed a workers’ compensation claim for “an occupational disease caused by exposure to cotton dust.” The Commission made the following pertinent “findings of fact”:

13. While the plaintiff was in a Veterans Administration Hospital in 1975 a doctor or doctors in that facility advised the plaintiff that he had byssinosis.

29. The plaintiff was notified by competent medical authority of the nature and work-related quality of his disease (byssinosis) while he was in a Veterans Administration hospital in 1975.

31. The plaintiffs claim for an occupational…