Vernon v. State Compensation Commissioner

Given, Judge:

This case is before this Court on appeal from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board, entered on the 10th day of December, 1949, reversing an order of the compensation commissioner. The order of the commissioner, entered August 12, 1949, affirmed his non-medical findings and the findings of the medical board, to the effect that claimant, James Edward Vernon, was suffering from the occupational disease of silicosis, in the second stage, and that the disease was contracted by the claimant as an employee of the defendant The Pocahontas Corporation. The award of the…