Free v. Associated Indemnity Corp.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Under the provisions of § 114-801 of the Annotated Supplement to the Code, an employer is not liable for compensation for silicosis, unless such disease arose out of and in the course of employment and has resulted from the nature of the employment in which the employee was engaged under such employer and was actually contracted while so engaged. The term, “nature of employment,” means that to the occupation in which the employee was engaged there is attached the particular hazard of silicosis which distinguishes it from the usual run of occupations and is…