Court Opinion

ID: 9718811
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 07:34:34.289887+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:02.665185
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE McNAMARA, dissenting: I respectfully dissent. I do not believe that the Commission was compelled to accept the testimony of the three witnesses that the elder Schooley ordered his law clerk son to play on the softball team he was managing. The Commission could conclude that such testimony was farfetched and unworthy of belief. Absent such an order by the employer that it was a job requirement to play on the team (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 48, par. 138.11), the Commission was entitled to find that the employee was participating in a voluntary recreational program and thus was not entitled to benefits. I would vacate the judgment of the circuit court and would reinstate the decision of the Commission.