Court Opinion

ID: 9850036
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 04:51:17.951972+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:20:30.671784
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Pannell, Judge,
concurring specially. I agree that the Judge of the Superior Court was correct in remanding the case to the Board of Workmen’s Compensation because of insufficient findings of fact to authorize the award made; but the majority are in error in stating that the first sentence in the "findings of fact” was a finding of fact sufficient to support the denial of compensation. The first sentence referred to above is as follows: "I find as a matter of fact claimant’s injury did not arise out of and in the course of his employment.” This amounts to nothing more than a legal conclusion. Code § 114-707 (Sec. 57 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act) requires findings of fact — "and it is not enough to state merely in the language of the statute that the injury is or is not found to have arisen out of and in the course of employment. Southeastern Express Co. v. Edmondson, 30 Ga. App. 697 (119 SE 39), explained in American Mutual Liability Co. v. Hardy, 36 Ga. App. 487 (137 SE 13). In other words, it is contemplated by sec. 57 of the Act that the commission shall adjudicate and file a statement of the facts supporting the legal conclusions arrived at. ” Metropolitan Cas. Insurance Company of New York v. Dallas, 39 Ga. App. 38, 40 (146 SE 37).
*741The findings of fact immediately succeeding this legal conclusion are totally insufficient to support that conclusion. For these reasons, I concur in the judgment affirming the action of the Judge of the Superior Court in remanding the case to the Board of Workmen’s Compensation for additional findings of fact.