Boyd v. Industrial Commission of Utah

WOLFE, Justice.

We are asked to reopen this case for rehearing on the grounds the evidence is definite that the splinter came from work for Knowlton and Rupert on the bridge because Parkinson testified that when the decedent first came to his work he had his fingers bandaged up. But even though the evidence eliminates the Parkinson job as the source of the splinter, it still leaves the speculation as to whether it came from the Knowlton and Ruper job or some other place, because we cannot consider decedent’s statement that he got the splinter working on the bridge. Moreover, even though the…