Court Opinion

ID: 9528615
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:42:31.439427+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:27:06.632014
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Concurring Opinion
White, J.
While I am convinced that the injured employeeappellee is entitled to compensation the award is nevertheless contrary to law. The “finding of facts on which it is based”1 contains no finding of the facts necessary to support the conclusion that his accident was one “arising out of and in the course of his employment.” The full board’s failure to find the facts is pointed up by the majority opinion’s attempt to distinguish Block v. Fruehauf, etc. (1969), 146 Ind. App. 70, 252 N. E. 2d 612, 19 Ind. Dec. 489, by alluding to assumed factual differences which presumably made Block a participant in horseplay while implying that Graham, the employee here, *438was an innocent victim, possibly because (as this court, not the full board, found) he yelled for the others to stop' the rock throwing he had initiated. None of those distinguishing “facts” were found by the board in either case and we really do not know why the board denied compensation to Block yet awarded it to Graham. Until we require the board to “find the facts” on which it concludes that one employee’s accident arises out of and in the course of his employment while another’s does not, we will never know whether the board has drawn the correct conclusion of law. Carlton v. Board of Zoning Appeals (1969), 252 Ind. 56, 245 N. E. 2d 337, 343, 16 Ind. Dec. 704, 711; Block v. Fruehauf Trailer Division, Fruehauf Corporation (1969), 146 Ind. 70, 252 N. E. 2d 612, 616, 617, 19 Ind. Dec. 489, 494, 506, dissenting opinions; Miller v. Barrett (1971), 148 Ind. App. 685, 269 N. E. 2d 772, 778, 25 Ind. Dec. 547, 556, second opinion.
The result reached and the futility of dissent induce me, albeit quite reluctantly, to concur in the result.
Staton, J., concurs.
Note. — Reported in 273 N. E. 2d 546.

. Required by IC 1971, 22-3-4-7, which is Ind. Ann. Stat. § 40-1511 (Burns 1970).