Hardiman v. General Motors Corp.

I concur in reversal but do not agree with Mr. Justice Bushnbll’s construction of the applicable statute. Section 8 of part 7 of the workmen’s compensation law* provides that where an occupational disease is aggravated by any other disease or infirmity not itself compensable, or where disability from any other cause which is not itself compensable is aggravated, accelerated or in anywise contributed to by an occupational disease, the compensation payable shall be such proportion only of the compensation that would be payable if the occupational disease were the sole cause of the disability as…