Sowell v. Workmen's Compensation Board

This is an appeal from the dismissal of petitioner’s amended petition for a writ of mandamus.

On March 10 and 19, 1967, petitioner inhaled welding fumes on the, job, the result of which was activation of a pre-existing bronchial asthmatic disease and incapacitation. He filed a claim with what was then the State Compensation Department, presently the State Accident Insurance Fund and hereinafter referred to as the Fund.' The Fund denied the claim, which was treated as one for an occupational disease, as not arising out of and in the course of petitioner’s employment. A hearing officer of the'…