Young v. Tackett

CATINNA, Commissioner.

The Workmen’s Compensation Board dismissed a claim filed by appellee Orville Tackett against Oney Mining Company, Inc., J. N. Johnson Coal Company, Ligón Preparation Company, and appellant Special Fund for compensation for permanent and total disability allegedly caused by the occupational disease, pneumoconiosis. Tackett appealed to the Pike Circuit Court where the Board’s action was reversed. The' Special Fund appeals to this court. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

Tackett, at the time he quit work on August 24, 1967, was some sixty-two years of age, with more…