Legal Opinion

Daugherty v. Watts

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided September 29, 1967PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CULLEN, Commissioner.

The appeal is from a judgment upholding an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which reopened a previous agreed award under which the appellee Hudson Watts had been given compensation on the basis that 57.2 percent of his disability (total) was due to silicosis, and substituted a new award giving him compensation on the basis of 100 percent disability from silicosis.

*138The original agreed award was made in May 1962 in proceedings initiated in April 1961 by the filing of a claim by Watts seeking an award for total permanent disability from silicosis. All the doctors who…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Messer v. DreesCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1964
  2. Turner Elkhorn Mining Co. v. O'BRYANCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1967

3Cited by11 opinions

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  4. Derr Construction Co. v. BennettKentucky Supreme Court · 1994
  5. Beth-Elkhorn Corp. v. DotsonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1968

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