Young v. Marsillett

OSBORNE, Judge.

This is an appeal by the Special Fund from an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board in which the claimant Marsil-lett was adjudged to be totally and permanently disabled and awarded maximum benefits, all to be paid by the Special Fund. The circuit court affirmed the Board and from this order the Special Fund appeals to this court.

Marsillett filed his claim before the Workmen’s Compensation Board in April 1969 seeking total and permanent disability benefits as the result of an occupational disease, pneumoconiosis/silicosis, alleged to have resulted from his employment as a…