Marschner v. American Hardware Corporation

The Superior Court dismissed the plaintiff’s appeal from a finding and award of the workmen’s compensation commissioner in favor of the defendant employer and its two defendant insurers. The plaintiff is the widow of the deceased, Otto Marsehner. It was her claim that the deceased, as a result of his exposure to dust containing silica at the plant of the defendant employer, contracted an occupational disease known as silicosis and was totally disabled by it, that he required medical and hospital attention because of his condition and that he would have lived longer had he not contracted the…