LOCKHART v. STATE COMPENSATION COMMISSIONER

No. 10925.

101 S.E.2d 852 (1958)

William R. LOCKHART v. STATE COMPENSATION COMMISSIONER and the Pocahontas Fuel Co., Inc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided February 11, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crockett & Tutwiler, Welch, H. R. Hawthorne, New York City, for appellants.

M. E. Boiarsky, R. L. Theibert, Charleston, for appellee.


GIVEN, Judge.

Claimant, Ola Lockhart, as dependent widow of William Lockhart, filed her claim for an award with the State Compensation Commissioner. The basis of the claim was that William Lockhart died of silicosis contracted in the course of and as a result of his employment. The Silicosis Medical Board reported that the employee, at the time of his death, was suffering from the disease silicosis in the third stage. The...

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