Travelers Insurance Company v. Childers

Eranicum, Judge.

1. “The workmen’s compensation act makes the finding of the board upon the facts final and conclusive, and in the absence of fraud such finding cannot be set aside by any court, if there is any competent evidence to support it. Code § 114-710.” Maryland Cas. Co. v. Hopkins, 71 Ga. App. 175, 177 (30 SE2d 357).

2. “Any competent evidence” as used in the foregoing rule may be supplied by the testimony of nonexpert and lay witnesses, as well as by that of experts, and where the facts testified to by the claimant raise a reasonable inference that the accident claimed to have…