Pocahontas Corp. v. Richardson

The principal question presented in this record is whether the evidence justified the Industrial Commission in awarding R. D. Richardson compensation for an occupational disease.

It is conceded that the malady which disabled claimant had been diagnosed as silicosis. The question is whether the evidence is sufficient to support the conclusion of the majority of the Commission (Commissioner Nickels dissented), to the effect that the disease was not susceptible of diagnosis as silicosis on July 1, 1944, the effective date of the statute.

Subsection 2i of Code, sec. 1887 (Workmen’s Compensation…