Court Opinion

ID: 9792870
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:38:21.823998+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:01:20.486993
License: Public Domain

*499HALL, Justice
(dissenting):
I of course agree that questions of fact are to be determined by the Commission. However, the record in this case reveals that none of the material facts are in dispute. The Commission was simply called upon to apply the law to those facts and thus determine whether defendant was totally disabled.
The services defendant performed for plaintiff Entwistle Company was the selling of trailers, which included sales trips to various dealers. The services he performed for himself and his son were sales of camper shells, which also included sales trips, although of lesser frequency and distance.
The legal test of total disability as announced by this Court in United Park City Mines Company v. Prescott, et al.,1 is whether one can perform work of the general character he was performing when injured.
I am of the opinion that there is little distinction to be made between traveling for the purpose of making sales of trailers and performing like services in the sale of camper shells. Consequently, I find no substantial evidence in the record to support the conclusion of the Commission that defendant was totally disabled.
I would set aside the order of the Commission.

. 15 Utah 2d 410, 393 P.2d 800 (1964).