Citation Numbers: 485 S.W.2d 529
Judges: Gardner
Filed Date: 9/22/1972
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 10/1/2021
Manuel Hall was awarded compensation for total and permanent disability by the Workmen’s Compensation Board, the award was upheld by the Floyd Circuit Court, and the Special Fund and the employer appeal. We reverse.
Hall was employed in underground coal mining for many years. In November
Appellants do not question the board’s finding that Hall was suffering from pneu-moconiosis.
We refer to Young v. Fraley, Ky., 474 S.W.2d 884 (1972), which we consider dis-positive of the case at hand.
The judgment is reversed and the case remanded to the board with instructions to re-evaluate the percentage of disability in accordance with Osborne v. Johnson, Ky., 432 S.W.2d 800 (1968).