Case Name: CONCETTO BAGNATO, PROSECUTOR, v. SPENCER, WHITE & PRENTIS, INC., DEFENDANT
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1946-03-13
Citations: 134 N.J.L. 107
Docket Number: 
Parties: CONCETTO BAGNATO, PROSECUTOR, v. SPENCER, WHITE & PRENTIS, INC., DEFENDANT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 134
Pages: 107–107

Head Matter:
CONCETTO BAGNATO, PROSECUTOR, v. SPENCER, WHITE & PRENTIS, INC., DEFENDANT.
Submitted January 15, 1946
Decided March 13, 1946.
Before-Justices Parker, Bodine and Oliphant.
For the prosecutor, Laurence Semel.
For the defendant, John W. Taylor.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bodine, J.
This is a workmen's compensation case. It was found in the Burean that the prosecutor of this writ had not established his right to compensation. The action of the Bureau was affirmed in the Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Justice Parker refused the writ. The court en banc awarded certiorari.
The basis of the award was that it was a debatable question whether the Deputy Commissioner acted arbitrarily in denying the employee's attorney's motion for a continuance of the hearing in order to afford him an opportunity to produce the testimony of the defendant's physicians who had examined the claimant on the day of the alleged accident.
Yo depositions were taken which would enable us to determine whether the action was arbitrary. There was a bare denial of the continuance. If depositions had been taken on the writ, as they might, we could then determine whether the prosecutor could have established his cause of action if continuance had been granted. Since none were taken, we must assume the facts could not have been established as required by law.
The writ is dismissed, with costs.