Duggins v. Kosmos Portland Cement Co.

NEIKIRK, Judge.

After sustaining an injury to his thumb and hand in the course of his employment, Carl S. Duggins filed a claim with the Workmen’s Compensation Board. He claimed disability not only from the injury, but also from an alleged lung condition. He had been employed as a welder and had worked for the Kosmos Portland Cement Company continuously for approximately fourteen years. Before the Board heard the claim, Duggins died of heart failure. An amended claim was filed by his widow, seeking compensation for temporary disability from the injury to decedent’s thumb and hand and for death…