Pocahontas Fuel Co. v. Agee

The principal question presented is whether the evidence justified the Industrial Commission in finding that claimant had suf fered total incapacity for work from silicosis, the occupational disease with which he was afflicted.

The evidence was presented to a hearing commissioner who found that claimant had sustained a total wage loss as a result of an occupational disease contracted while in the employ of the company. Although he found that claimant had suffered partial physical disability, yet he determined that the partial physical disability resulting from the second stage silicosis with…