McKamey v. Pee Wee Mining Co.

OPINION

HUMPHREYS, Justice.

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case in which McKamey was awarded total and permanent disability benefits because of the lung disease of coal workers, pneumoco-niosis, contracted and developed while working for Pee Wee Mining Company. The trial judge’s finding and holding was summarized from the bench in part as follows :

“Of course, the evidence is uncontro-verted that in 1950 the petitioner-complainant was awarded workmen’s compensation benefits at 60 percent permanent partial to the body as a whole, and later 90 percent to one finger, permanent partial, and later…