Jackson v. General Refractories Co.

*11CLAYTON, Justice.

Glenn Jackson, movant here, was awarded workmen’s compensation benefits for permanent total disability caused by silicosis incurred during his 27-year term of employment with General Refractories Company. Upon the advice of his doctor, Jackson voluntarily ended his employment as a brickworker on February 2, 1972, because he could no longer tolerate the dust to which he was exposed at work. More than three years passed before Jackson was informed by Dr. Richard P. O’Neill on May 14,1975, that he had contracted the occupational disease of silicosis. Jackson then notified his…