Thacker v. Republic Steel Corp.

PALMORE, Justice.

Gertrude Thacker, as administratrix of the estate of John Thacker, deceased, appeals from a judgment sustaining an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board denying recovery on a compensation claim filed by Thacker and tried before his death.

After working for more than 40 years in the coal mines Thacker was forced to quit by reason of a totally disabling lung condition. Doctors who examined him incident to the preparation and trial of his claim diagnosed the condition of his lungs as being substantially attributable to coal miner’s pneumoconiosis. Two of these physicians had…