Court Opinion

ID: 9850392
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:56:29.396732+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:36.174022
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Quillian, Judge,
dissenting. In Guess v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 219 Ga. 581 (134 SE2d 783), and Awbrey v. Davis, 219 Ga. 598 (134 SE2d 785), it was held that, under the provisions *761•of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, when there has been an award of the State Board of Workmen’s Compensation granting •compensation which has not been modified or the employer’s obligation to make payments under the award arrested by an application for a hearing to determine a change of condition, the employee is entitled to continue to receive compensation payments notwithstanding the fact that he has accepted employment from a different employer and is earning a wage which is equal to that which he was receiving at the time of his accident.
The majority opinion is based on the premise that the standard form for agreement as to compensation contained a provision that the employer would receive credit for any week the employee earned a wage which was equal to or in excess of that which he was receiving under the agreement, whether the employee was employed by the same or a different employer. While the writer agrees that the provision in question would be equitable, it is in conflict with the principle established in the Guess and Davis cases, supra, and is therefore invalid.
I am authorized to state that Judges Pannell and Whitman concur in this dissent.