FIREMAN'S FUND INDEMNITY COMPANY v. Peeples

Carlisle, Judge.

“An award of compensation cannot be lawfully based on mere findings as to what the witnesses testified in the absence of other specific findings of fact which would otherwise support an award.” Bituminous Casualty Corp. v. Chambers, 84 Ga. App. 295 (66 S. E. 2d 196). Accordingly, where the single director, whose findings and award were adopted by the full board, instead of making findings of fact, in almost every instance, merely found that certain witnesses testified to various facts or that a witness admitted certain facts, and that there was evidence in the record as to…