Case Name: Lucille TESTER, Employee-Appellant, v. AUTCO DISTRIBUTING, INC., Employer-Respondent
Court: Missouri Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1988-04-26
Citations: 749 S.W.2d 21
Docket Number: No. 53883
Parties: Lucille TESTER, Employee-Appellant, v. AUTCO DISTRIBUTING, INC., Employer-Respondent.
Judges: GARY M. GAERTNER, P.J., and CRIST, J., concur.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 749
Pages: 21–22

Head Matter:
Lucille TESTER, Employee-Appellant, v. AUTCO DISTRIBUTING, INC., Employer-Respondent.
No. 53883.
Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division One.
April 26, 1988.
Harry J. Nichols, St. Louis, for employee-appellant.
Theodore G. Pashos, St. Louis, for employer-respondent.

Opinion:
REINHARD, Judge.
Employee appeals an award by the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission denying compensation in a workers' compensation case. We affirm.
Employee sought compensation under the Workers' Compensation Law, Ch. 287, RSMo 1986. Employee presented sufficient evidence at the hearing before an administrative law judge to support an award of compensation. However, employer presented contradictory evidence on the issue of the cause of employee's injury. The administrative law judge awarded no compensation, and the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission affirmed the award and entered a final award denying compensation.
We must affirm the award if it is supported by competent and substantial evidence on the whole record and if the award reasonably could have been reached upon consideration of all the evidence in the light most favorable to the award. Banner Iron Works v. Mordis, 663 S.W.2d 770, 773 (Mo.App.1983). The power to judge the credibility of witnesses, to resolve conflicts in testimony, to weigh evidence, and to draw factual inferences is vested in the commission, through its administrative law judge as trier of fact. Counts v. John Fabick Tractor Co., 745 S.W.2d 839, 840 (Mo.App.1988).
An extended opinion would have no prec-edential value. We affirm pursuant to Rule 84.16(b).
Judgment affirmed.
GARY M. GAERTNER, P.J., and CRIST, J., concur.