Beall v. Altus Public School District

Under consideration here is a compensation claim. Its denial by the trial tribunal’s review panel of three judges — later reversed in an opinion of the Court of Appeals, Div. 2 — is now ordered reinstated in today’s pronouncement of this court. I cannot join in the decision because, in my view, the claim should be allowed.

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DISPOSITIVE ISSUE AND ITS RESOLUTION

The issue central to this controversy — in which the facts are not in dispute — is whether the claimant, when injured, stood in an employment relation to either of the two respondents named in the case — the school district [District]…