Knott County Board of Education v. Williams

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

The Knott County Board of Education appeals from a judgment affirming the Workmen’s Compensation Board’s award in favor of Dingus Williams for total and permanent disability. It is urged that ap-pellee’s claim is not compensable because the claimed disability is not the natural and direct result .of a traumatic injury by accident and that there is no competent evidence of probative value that the appellee is totally and permanently disabled.

Dingus Williams, age fifty-two years, was in his eighth year of employment as a janitor with the Knott County Board of Education. His…