Blue Diamond Coal Co. v. Blair

MILLIKEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment reversing the Workmen’s Compensation Board which had found that the claimant, John Blair, who had worked seventeen years for the Blue Diamond Coal Company, was permanently and totally disabled from silicosis but denied him compensation because of his failure to notify the Company of his affliction for eleven months after learning he had it. One member of the Board, Honorable Alvin B. Trigg, dissented from the Board’s ruling and favored granting compensation because he thought that the Company was not prejudiced by Blair’s delay in giving it…