Ort v. Taylor-Wharton Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Francis, J.

This is a workmen’s compensation occupational disease case. The petitioner Enos Ort was employed for many years in respondent’s foundry where in the course of his work he was extensively exposed to dust. On November 21, 1956 he filed a petition for compensation claiming that the dust inhalation had caused pneumoconiosis and emphysema which produced substantial permanent disability. After hearing at which the compensability of his claim was not contested the judge of compensation found that the incapacity was fixed, measurable and permanent…