Chapman v. Eastern Coal Corporation

PALMORE, Justice.

Fid Chapman, a 58-year-old coal miner, quit working for Eastern Coal Corporation on March 19, 1973, and filed a claim for workmen’s compensation on March 28, 1973. He had worked in the coal mines for some 16 years. On April 29, 1974, following the reception of evidence pro and con, the compensation board entered a finding to the effect that he had become totally and permanently disabled on March 19, 1973, as the result of “the occupational disease of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis and/or silicosis” and awarded him compensation of $63 per week for 425 weeks plus reimbursement of…