Cummins v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

Haymond, President:

This claim of Warren J. Cummins against his employer, The Carbon Fuel Company, a corporation, for first stage silicosis compensation, is here on appeal by the employer from a final order of the State Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board of September 4, 1968, which reversed an order of the State Workmen’s Compensation Commissioner of April 24, 1968 which dismissed the claim of Cummins for first stage silicosis benefits on the ground that he had previously been granted a final award of total permanent disability, such award having been made by order of the commissioner on…