Beechwood Coal Co. v. Lucas

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Allegany County affirming the action of the State Industrial Accident Commission which had awarded the claimant compensation for injuries resulting in total disability from an occupational disease.

William J. Lucas, claimant-appellee, fifty-four years of age, worked in the bituminous coal mines for thirty-four years of which the last six years, ending in February or March, 1955, were in the employ of the Beechwood Coal Company, appellant, or its predecessors. He quit work because of his physical inability to continue resulting from…