Hedrick v. Southland Corp.

VAUGHN, Judge.

Defendants first contend that the Commission erred in allowing into the record the plaintiff’s social security file containing medical reports of various doctors and in using these reports to establish plaintiff’s disability under G.S. 97-38. The Deputy Commissioner made the following findings of fact, based on these records, which were adopted by the Full Commission.

“8. On June 25, 1973, Dr. Robert A. Huffaker, a psychiatrist with offices in Durham, North Carolina, reported his findings concerning a psychiatric evaluation of the plaintiff widow. At that time she gave a history…