Gunnells v. RAYBESTOS-MANHATTEN, INC.

Brailsford, Justice.

This is an appeal by the employer and its insurance carrier from the affirmance of an award of workmen’s compensation benefits to the widow of an employee who died of asbestosis contracted in the scope and course of his employment. It is conceded, and the record conclusively establishes, that the employee was completely and continuously disabled by this disease from December 29, 1961, when his employment was terminated, until his death on April 30, 1969.

Appeal by the employer from an initial award of the South Carolina Industrial Commission to the circuit court was heard…