Frady v. Werthan Bag Corp.

This is a workmen’s compensation case and the suit Avas dismissed by the trial judge on the ground that he found that petitioner was not suffering from silicosis. This appeal resulted.

The petitioner was regularly employed by the Werthan Bag Corporation, a textile manufacturing plant. His work consisted of grinding metal teeth of the carding machines with abrasives made of emery, sand and other grinding compounds and he charges that in breathing the dust from this work and the small particles of lint in the air, he contracted silicosis and as a result, he became totally and permanently…