Cash v. Blue Mountain Industries of Carisbrook Co.

HORNSBY, Chief Justice.

We have granted James Cash’s petition for certiorari review of a judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals affirming the trial court’s denial of worker’s compensation benefits. We reverse and remand.

From 1970 to 1990 Blue Mountain Industries (“BMI”) employed Cash to work in its cotton mill. On March 13, 1990, Cash was admitted to a hospital with complaints of coughing, wheezing, tightening of the chest, and shortness of breath.1 Dr. Henry Bom examined him and diagnosed him as suffering from byssinosis, an asthmatic condition caused by an allergy to cotton dust. On June 4,…