EkviN, J. As originally adopted in 1929, the North Carolina Workmen’s Compensation Act provided merely for compensation for the death or disability of a workman resulting from injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. G. S., 97-2. In 1935, an amendment broadened the scope of the Act by making compensable twenty-five designated occupational diseases, inclu…
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