Knox Porcelain Corp. v. Dockery

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case wherein the trial judge awarded the appellants (widow and dependent children) Workmen’s Compensation benefits. The trial judge concluded, after setting forth the factual situation as he found it in this record, that:

“This Court is of the opinion deceased suffered from an occupation disease, that is dust which precipitated his original illness, causing him to see a doctor for help and that the diagnosis was uncertain without the thorocotomy and other procedure which became neces*66sary. From the stress caused by diagnostic procedures, the deceased employee…