Young V. Whitehall Co‪.‬

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, including asbestosis and silicosis. G.S., 97-53.