Lewis v. United States Steel Corp.

PALMORE, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the evidentiary situation is on all fours with Horton v. United States Steel Corporation, Ky., 384 S.W.2d 73 (1964), except for the fact that the board, confronted by the conflicting opinions expressed by the medical witnesses offered by the respective parties, appointed and had the benefit of an additional opinion from a disinterested physician pursuant to KRS 342.315.

At the time the case was heard appellant was 59 years old and had been a coal miner for 43 years, the last 10 of which were in the employment of appellee company.…