Brown v. Consolidation Coal Co.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation appeal from a decree awarding twenty per cent permanent disability against the Second Injury Fund of which the State Treasurer is custodian and eighty per cent permanent disability from the occupational disease, silicosis, against Consolidation. Only Consolidation has appealed. So inquiry in this Court is limited to the correctness of the decree against Consolidation alone. Although Consolidation has assigned several errors only one has merit and that is, that, although petitioner-employee Brown does have the occupational disease of silicosis, the disease is…