Leva v. Caron Granite Co.

This is* an original petition for compensation under the occupational disease provisions of the workmen’s compensation act, general laws 1938, chapter 300, article VIII, as amended by public laws 1954, chap. 3297. The petition alleges that the petitioner was last employed by the respondent as a stonecutter, and that over a period of time he contracted silicosis which arose out of and in the course of his employment. From the decree, of the workmen’s compensation commission affirming the decree entered by the single commissioner, who heard the cause originally and awarded the petitioner…