Court Opinion

ID: 9845133
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:15:40.285697+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:52.487133
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StukEs, Justice
(concurring).
I concur in overruling this appeal because of the express finding of fact by the Commission (which is controlling upon the Court) that the deceased employee deviated from the course of his employment, quoting, “for some reason unknown”. This is well stated in the order of the Circuit Court, as follows: “In any event, the findings of the Commission to the effect that Mr. Mims entered the premises ‘for some reason unknown to anybody’ and ‘without any realization or knowledge of the impending explosion’ and thereupon ‘became aware’ of the emergency, have the legal effect of excluding the possibility that he entered the premises of the laundry for the purpose of lending aid and assistance in an emergency, knowing that same existed, in accordance with the line of cases relied upon by claimant’s attorneys. * * * It appears to this Court that the Commission has in this case destroyed the only theory upon which its award could have rested by its positive findings that Mr. Mims, for some reason unknown to any one, deviated from his line of duty.”
*520Therefore I do not think it accurate to say, as the opinion of Mr. Justice Taylor opens and concludes, that it is held that the accident did not arise out of and in the course of employment. The decision, which I join in affirming, is to the effect that the Commission failed to factually find that it did, which is fatal to the claim.
It should be added that the order under review does include at the end the statement that the accident and death did not arise out of and in the course of employment, which I think immaterial error in view of the other contents of the order, some quoted above.