Yocom v. Hamilton

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Ervin Hamilton’s claim for workmen’s compensation for disability from an occupational disease (silicosis or pneumoconio-sis) was rejected by the Workmen’s Compensation Board on a finding that although Hamilton was totally disabled from a lung condition it was not due to any compensa-ble occupational disease. On Hamilton’s appeal to the circuit court, judgment was entered reversing the board’s order and remanding the case to the board with directions to grant compensation for total disability.

The original judgment, entered February 11, 1972, was set aside, and ultimately,…