Martin Bros. Container & Timber Corp. v. Lynch

OPINION

HENRY, Justice.

The only issue in this workmen’s compensation appeal is whether claimant’s lung condition is compensable as an “occupational disease” under Sec. 50-1101, T.C.A.

The injured worker, a fifty-one year old woman, began working for Martin Brothers Container & Timber Products Corporation in 1966, laying boards on an assembly line where wooden boxes are made. The 5-acre Martin Brothers factory saws between 100,-000 and 130,000 feet of boards per week in a part of the plant “about half an acre” distant from the assembly line where Mrs. Lynch worked. Although three large blowers…