Beem v. Industrial Commission

The proof under which the Industrial Commission is to act must be based on competent legal evidence, and must amount to something more than a mere guess, conjecture, or surmise. 2 Jones, Evidence (2d eel.), p. 945, sec. 520. The problem of the cogency of an inference “involves (as all other judicial inferences do) the question how many and what other hypotheses there are which explain away the evidential fact,” asserted as due to some other cause than the one described. 3 Wigmore, Evidence (3d ed.), p. 362, sec. 874. The decision of the Industrial Commission disallowing a claim is not to be…