Coburn v. North American Refractories Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Tilford

Affirming.

Seymour Coburn died on November 9, 1941, at the ■early age of twenty-nine years, six months, and eight days, the victim of tuberculosis of the lungs. He had been raised in the country, and, prior to 1936, had never worked in an industrial plant of any kind. In January ■of that year he went to Ashland and secured employment as a “grinder” with the North American Refractories Company, which was engaged in the manufacture •of refractory brick. While sand, containing silica, was not a component part of the bricks manufactured, it was, nevertheless,…