Court Opinion

ID: 9725787
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 12:10:30.015161+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:19.750305
License: Public Domain

ALLPORT, J.
I concur in the portion of the majority opinion that holds that the board’s determination that the employee’s earnings were maximum for purposes of computing temporary disability benefits is not based on substantial evidence. I cannot agree with the majority holding that there was substantial evidence that the exposure on August 23, 1967, in the course of employment by Lyles Co. contributed to the disability and need for medical treatment. In discussing sufficiency of the evidence to sustain an award this court said in West v. Industrial Acc. Com., 79 Cal.App.2d 711 at p. 720 [180 P.2d 972]: “The power of the commission to make determinations of fact is indeed broad, but it may not be exercised in disregard of fundamental concepts as to what constitutes legal proof and of *139the duty to fairly weigh evidence. A reviewing court should not consider itself bound by a finding of the commission which has no reasonable basis (emphasis added) in the evidence.”
I would annul the award in its entirety.