Brennfleck v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board

The Workmen’s Compensation Appeals Board granted reconsideration of a referee’s recommendation and thereafter issued an order denying death benefits to petitioner, an allegedly dependent widow of Carl Brennfleck. Petitioner seeks annulment of said order.

The petition raises two contentions. The first contention is that the appeals board was without power to grant the employer’s petition for reconsideration. We disallow that contention, but we have concluded that petitioner’s second point has merit and that the decision must be annulled for failure of the appeals hoard to state the evidence…