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CROPLEY v. ALASKA JUNEAU GOLD MINING CO.

No. 7255-A.

131 F.Supp. 34 (1955)

Jake CROPLEY, Sr., Plaintiff, v. ALASKA JUNEAU GOLD MINING CO., and Alaska Industrial Board, Defendants.

District Court, Alaska First Division, Juneau.

May 23, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Paul, Jr., Seattle, Wash., and John S. Mansuy, Jr., Juneau, Alaska, for plaintiff.

R. Boochever (of Faulkner, Banfield & Boochever), Juneau, Alaska, for defendant Alaska Gold Mining Co.

FOLTA, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Alaska Industrial Board denying compensation to the plaintiff for disability resulting from silicosis allegedly contracted while in the employ of the defendant Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. for several years antedating 1932. The coverage of the Workmen's Compensation Act was not extended to occupational disease until after 1946 and the disease did not manifest itself until 1954. The defendant Alaska Juneau...

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