Peabody Coal Company v. Powell

WILLIAMS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Harlan Circuit Court affirming an award of the Kentucky Workmen’s Compensation Board allowing permanent and total disability benefits to appellee Marshall Powell as a result of silicosis. The appellee had worked for appellant Peabody Coal Company for many years until February 1958. Prior to that date appellee had complained of chest pains and shortness of breath. In October 1957 his trouble had been diagnosed as pulmonary fibrosis with pulmonary emphysema. The doctor who made that diagnosis did not advise appellee what was wrong with…