Court Opinion

ID: 3557151
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 23:07:56.044932+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:45:47.157861
License: Public Domain

This is a workmen's compensation case. It was found in the Bureau that the prosecutor of this writ had not established his right to compensation. The action of the Bureau was affirmed in the Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Justice Parker refused the writ. The court en banc awarded certiorari.
The basis of the award was that it was a debatable question whether the Deputy Commissioner acted arbitrarily in denying the employee's attorney's motion for a continuance of the hearing in order to afford him an opportunity to produce the testimony of the defendant's physicians who had examined the claimant on the day of the alleged accident.
No depositions were taken which would enable us to determine whether the action was arbitrary. There was a bare denial of the continuance. If depositions had been taken on the writ, as they might, we could then determine whether the prosecutor could have established his cause of action if continuance had been granted. Since none were taken, we must assume the facts could not have been established as required by law.
The writ is dismissed, with costs. *Page 108