Yocom v. Workmen's Compensation Board

CULLEN, Commissioner.

The Kentucky Workmen’s Compensation Board made an award to David Morgan, against his employer and the Special Fund *76in a specified apportionment, for total permanent disability from pneumoconiosis. The order of award was affirmed, on appeal, by a circuit court judgment. The employer and the Special Fund are here appealing from that judgment. The primary contention of the appellants is that Morgan’s claim should have been dismissed, pursuant to the employer’s motion made at the outset of the proceedings before the board, because the claim did not comply with the formal…