Honeycutt v. Carolina Asbestos Co.

The principal question involved in this appeal is whether an employee who is disabled and incapacitated as the result of asbestosis from performing normal labor in the last occupation in which remunera-tively employed is entitled to compensation for total disability under the provisions of our Workmen’s Compensation Act.

The appellants take the position that the plaintiff is not totally disabled within the meaning of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, since he is earning more wages as a policeman than he earned as an asbestos worker. They are relying on the case of Branham v. Panel Company, 223…