Huddleston v. P & L Coal Co.

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

In this workmen’s compensation case the employer and its insurer appeal from an award to the employee for total permanent disability benefits as the result of coal worker’s pneumoconiosis. After careful consideration of the record and of the assignments of error, we affirm the decision of the trial judge.

The employee, Earl P. Huddleston, worked in underground coal mining for nineteen years prior to 1964. For three years thereafter he engaged in logging. During the years from 1967 until 1974 he worked in the coal mining industry in surface or strip mines.

Appellee had…