Inland Steel Co. v. Voutos

Through appropriate pleadings and a subsequent hearing and review by the full Industrial Board of Indiana the appellee was awarded compensation for total disability resulting from silicosis contracted in the performance of his duties while an employee of the appellant. The award is challenged through this appeal primarily on the theory that there is a total lack of evidence, direct and inferential, tending to prove that the appellee was exposed to silica dust which had any direct causal connection with his work.

It is conceded that the appellee had silicosis when he left the appellant’s…