Peabody Coal Co. v. Burks

GANT, Judge.

The appellee and claimant, Edgie C. Burks, filed two separate Applications for Adjustment of Claims with the Workmen’s Compensation Board. The first claim was filed April 8, 1975, alleging total disability from the occupational disease of pneumoco-niosis occurring on October 1,1973, the last day of employment. The second claim was filed April 29, 1975, three weeks after the first claim, alleging total disability from injury occurring on the last day of employment. The Board entered an order holding the injury claim in abeyance until consideration of the occupational disease case…