Brock v. International Harvester Company

CULLEN, Commissioner.

The appeal is from a judgment of the circuit court affirming an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which dismissed a claim for compensation.

Appellant, Lige Brock, worked as a miner for appellee, International Harvester Company, from 1927 until 1956, when he began to show symptoms of the disease of silicosis. On reporting his condition to the foreman on April 7, 1956, he was transferred from inside the mines to the company’s machine repair shop where he continued to work until January 11, 1960.

On October 28, 1958, appellant delivered a letter to appellee company…