Moore v. Old Republic Insurance Co.

OPINION

WILLIAM M. LEECH, Special Justice.

The two above styled causes are Workmen’s Compensation cases having almost identical factual and legal issues, therefore, both cases were consolidated at trial and both were heard together before this Court. Thus, it necessarily follows that only one opinion will be necessary to dispose of both cases.

Both plaintiffs were coal miners suffering from coal worker’s pneumoconiosis (Black Lung), which they allege caused them to be totally and permanently disabled under Tennessee’s Workmen’s Compensation Law. The facts were stipulated below as follows:

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