Court Opinion

ID: 9587222
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:19:39.244444+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:56.653222
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Whitman, Judge,
concurring specially. While I do not agree with all of the language set forth in the original opinion, I concur in the judgment reversing that part of the judgment affirming the board’s denial of the claim of Frances Gibbons.
While the opinion of the full board of date November 21, 1967, stated that the board was of the opinion that the previous hearing before and the award of the deputy director was of no effect, that order of the full board was set aside by its order of date November 28, 1967, and the case remanded to the deputy director merely for the purpose of taking additional evidence and, therefore, the evidence before the deputy director on the original hearing before the deputy director remained in force and effect when the case again came before the full board, resulting in a majority judgment denying the claim of Frances Gibbons and directing continuance of payments to Jessie Bell Gibbons. However, by reference to the testimony of Frances Gibbons on the original hearing, still a part of the record, which is undisputed, it will be noted that John R. Gibbons, the deceased, voluntarily deserted her without cause and did not thereafter contribute to her support, and that she did not abandon him.