Thomas v. Continental Motors Corp.

On leave granted the defendant appeals in the nature of certiorari from an order of the department of labor and industry awarding dependency compensation and death benefits to plaintiff for the death of her husband, James H. Thomas. Admittedly defendant’s deceased employee, James H. Thomas, died by reason of silicosis or pneumoconiosis. The defendant claims that his death was due to silicosis and not to pneumoconiosis, that sili cosis was not compensable under the original occupational disease amendment added to the workmen’s compensation law as part 7, unless contracted in mining; that…