Davis v. NC Granite Corporation

This is a proceeding by plaintiffs under the Workmen’s Compensation Act for compensation on account of the death of William Gray Davis, formerly an employee of defendant N. C. Granite Corporation.

Davis was a stonecutter and was employed as such by defendant from 1945 until he was laid off on 31 December 1957. He had contracted silicosis and on 25 March 1959 the medical advisory committee of the Industrial Commission determined that he had silicosis, grade I, and was 30% disabled. A year later he was found to have silicosis, grade II, and was 50% disabled. The following year he was examined…