Court Opinion

ID: 9737991
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 19:39:26.7968+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:03.027499
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O’Hara, J.
(dissenting). I would reverse under the mandate of Kaminski v Wayne County Road *541Commissioners, 370 Mich 389; 121 NW2d 830 (1963).
A.videotape in which the involved operation is depicted with a perfectly healthy uninjured employee of the defendant with unimpaired function of his knee is a country mile away from the way claimant testified he had to perform the work.
The determination of the credibility of witnesses is the province, in the first instance, of the administrative law judge1 and ultimately of the appeal board.
Admissibility of reconstructed evidentiary matter is a question of law and our province.
I have absolutely no way of knowing the reason for which the tape was "designed”. All I know is what it did do. Its admission was impermissible and reversibly erroneous.
I would remand for a new hearing expressly excluding the videotape, the admission of which plaintiff objected to strenuously as having "grossly misrepresented the material facts”.

 Formerly "referee”.