Court Opinion

ID: 9690240
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 18:58:56.762451+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:54.561647
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Frank T. Gallagher, Justice
(concurring specially).
While I agree generally with the results of the majority opinion and agree also that L. 1951, c. 442, has brought about substantial *566changes in connection with the discretionary power of the director, it is my opinion, after reargument, which was granted only on the question of the effect of the division’s letters of June 5, 1947, and July 8, 1947, that the director did redetermine rather than simply review the matter. The referee, as well as the director, must have also considered that a redetermination was made, because the findings of the referee adopted by the director in connection with the rate case state in part that the letter of June 5, 1947, “notified the employer that a redetermination was made relative to this employer’s experience rating account and contribution rate for the calendar year 1947.” The findings further state that the employer appealed from that redetermination on June 11, 1947. With reference to the Mitchell case, the findings then go on to state that on July 8, 1947, the division “advised the employer that it had been redetermined that the employer was properly charged with $110 for the second half of 1946,” and that “On July 18, 1947, the employer by letter appealed from the determination * * It is undisputed that both of these appeals were timely taken.
It therefore seems to me that there are merits to relator’s contentions on reargument that the findings leave no question as to whether there was a redetermination or the scope of it, and that under the facts and circumstances in this particular case we must therefore consider as an established fact that redeterminations were made without limitation.
Because of the uncertainty raised by the petition for reargument with reference to the indefiniteness of the division’s letters of June 5 and July 8, 1947, as to just what was redetermined, I believe, under the circumstances here, that the case should be remanded and that the referee should permit relator to submit the testimony which he offered to prove with reference to the propriety of the benefits paid to the employes in question, and consequently the charges against employer’s experience rating account.
Mr. Justice Matson took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.