General Refractories Co. v. Henderson

Clay, Commissioner

Affirming.

This is an appeal from a judgment upholding an award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, allowing appellee disability benefits for silicosis allegedly *615contracted while in the employ of appellant. A question of law is determinative of the controversy.

The application was filed in 1945. Under the law then in effect a Medical Committee of physicians, provided for in KBS 342.315 and 342.316, as amended in 1946, heard the evidence and filed. its report in 1947. The finding of this Medical Committee was that appellee did not have silicosis. Exceptions to this report were…