Brawn v. St. Regis Paper Co.

CARTER, Justice.

Harold Brawn appeals from the pro for-ma decree affirming the denial by the Workers’ Compensation Commission of his petition for compensation for an occupational disease. We affirm the judgment.

Brawn’s petition sought compensation for emphysema allegedly caused by inhaling paper dust during his thirty-eight years of employment in the mill of the respondent, St. Regis Paper Company. The Commission denied the petition and found:

Harold S. Brawn suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease which probably is a combination of asthma and emphysema. The etiology of this…