Bartley & Senters Coal Co. v. Hall

STEWART, Judge.

One question is raised in this appeal: Was there sufficient evidence of substance to support the Workmen’s Compensation Board’s finding of fact that appellee-employee, Linzie H. Hall, was injuriously exposed to the hazard of silicosis while employed in a mine of appellant-employer, Bartley & Senters Coal Company, from April, 1960, until November, 1961 ? See KRS 342.316(12).

Appellee, testifying for himself, stated that appellant’s mine was not mechanized; that it utilized no cutting machine in extracting coal but that the coal was “shot from the solid”; that all the coal was…