Bettis v. Perry

TATE, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation suit. The plaintiff sues his employer and its compensation insurer. The claimant was awarded benefits for total and permanent disability. Consequently, the defendants appeal.

The plaintiff was a plasterer and cement worker of twenty-seven years experience. The virtually uncontradicted medical evidence shows that he is now disabled from following this skilled trade because of a sensitization to the lime component of cement and plaster. As a result, the claimant at once suffers from a rash of increasing and disabling severity upon attempting to work…