Venable v. John P. King Manufacturing Co.

Beasley, Judge.

This is an appeal from the trial court’s grant of summary judgment for defendant-appellee Spartan Mills.

Plaintiff-appellant Venable filed a workers’ compensation claim in 1982 to recover for byssinosis, a pulmonary disease caused by exposure to cotton dust, which she alleges she contracted while working for Spartan Mills for sixteen years, up until she became disabled and ceased working April 22, 1981. At the hearing before the ALJ on May 3, 1982, it was stipulated that the employer and the claimant were subject to the Workers’ Compensation Act and that jurisdiction and venue…