Alley v. Consolidation Coal Co.

OPINION

COOPER, Chief Justice.

Consolidation Coal Company has appealed from the decree of the chancery court awarding plaintiff benefits under the Worker’s Compensation Act. The chancellor based the award of benefits on his finding that the plaintiff, who worked in underground mines for forty-nine years, has pneumoconiosis and is totally and permanently disabled from performing his usual coal mine work or comparable work. Appellant, not being certain as to the applicable standard of appellate review since the passage of Chapter 393 of the Public Acts of 1985, argues both that there is no…