Lawrence v. O.B. Cannon & Sons, Inc.

I respectfully dissent. If this case involved only the issue of whether there was sufficient medical evidence to support the judge’s determination that the September 29, 1986 industrial accident caused merely a temporary aggravation of the claimant’s preexisting back condition, I would have no difficulty in affirming. The issue before us, however, involves far more. The case turns on the legal effect of other evidence which indicates that the claimant had completely recovered from both his 1971 and 1981 injuries, in that in 1986 he worked with a construction company performing manual tasks…