Bray v. Consolidated Coal Co.

ROBERT L. TAYLOR, Chief Judge.

MEMORANDUM

The plaintiff, Willis Bray, filed this action to recover workmen’s compensation benefits for an occupational dust disease. At the time he claimed that he became disabled to work, he was an employee of the defendant, Consolidation Coal Company. It is his theory that he developed the occupational coal dust disease from dust exposure in the defendant’s mine, over a period of years. He worked for the defendant until September, 1967, following which he was hospitalized for some one or two weeks — or for several days, during which time his disability was…