Young v. Phelps Collieries Co.

REED, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case involving a coal miner’s claim for occupational disease. The only issue is whether or not the Workmen’s Compensation Board erred in not awarding compensation for total and permanent disability. The trial court held that the Board must allow total and permanent disability in this case. We affirm the trial court.

Ezra Coleman, a 62-year-old underground coal miner, worked in the mines for some 43 years. He stopped working in January 1967 because of shortness of breath and chest pains which he had been experiencing during the previous year. He…