Raines v. State Compensation Commissioner

Browning, Judge:

Claimant, Herbert A. Raines, filed application for silicosis benefits with the State Compensation Commissioner on August 17, 1957. The Commissioner made the appropriate non-medical findings in regard to exposure and referred the claim to the Silicosis Medical Board, who examined the claimant and reported its findings, under date of February 4, 1958, that claimant was suffering from silicosis in its second stage. Claimant protested this finding and at the hearing it was developed that claimant, at the time of the Board’s examination, was a patient in a tuberculosis sanitarium…