Horton v. United States Steel Corp.

PALMORE, Judge.

The appellant, Earnest Horton, an employe of the appellee United States Steel Corporation, was laid off on May 24, 1961, incident to a reduction in force. On May 18, 1962, he filed a workmen’s compensation claim against the company alleging that he was totally and permanently disabled by reason of the occupational disease of pneumo-coniosis. According to the proof thereafter taken, he had been extensively exposed to the hazard of such a disease during a career of some 45 years in the coal mines, and the defendant company was the employer in whose service he was last injuriously…