Ark. Coal Co. v. Steele

Frank Holt, Associate Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case in which the claimant-appellee, Bill Steele, seeks total and permanent disability benefits as a result of silicosis. The Referee denied the claim and the Full Commission found the claimant became disabled on January 3, 1961 and awarded compensation for total and permanent disability. The Commission’s award was affirmed by the Circuit Court.

On appeal appellants, Arkansas Coal Company and Commercial Standard Insurance Company, first contend for reversal that “the Full Commission, sitting as a reviewing body, was without…