Waits v. Travelers Insurance

Carlisle, Presiding Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the claimant sought compensation on the basis of a disability claimed to be due to an industrial disease, namely, silicosis. Medical testimony in the form of depositions of three medical doctors was heard by the board, their *131evidence being in sharp conflict, one testifying that in his opinion the claimant was disabled on account of silicosis, and two testifying that the claimant’s disability was not due to silicosis. The case was submitted to the medical board which rendered a decision holding that the claimant was not…