Brown v. Consolidation Coal Company

OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

This workmen’s compensation case is before us on the technical record only, the single issue being the authority of the trial judge to correct the weekly compensation rate and the amount of total benefits due the employee, Brown, for permanent total disability, upon petition of the employer filed approximately 14 months after entry of judgment.

Employee, Charles R. Brown, filed a complaint on April 29, 1971, seeking workmen’s compensation benefits for the occupational disease known as coal worker’s pneumonocosis. Employee alleged that he had last worked for…