Webb v. State Compensation Commissioner

Given, Judge:

In this appeal from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board, denying benefits to a dependent claimant, we have for determination a question as to whether a widow of an employee, who was granted an award for silicosis in the third stage, under the 1945 Act of the Legislature, Chapter 131, the employee not having died until after the effective date of the 1949 Amendment to that Act, may recover benefits, notwithstanding the *22employee did not suffer from silicosis in the third stage, as defined by that Act. Before an award could have been made for silicosis, in the third…