Garcia v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion of the Court

HUTCHINSON, Justice.

The estate of claimant Marcelino Garcia appealed to this Court from a February 26, 1982 Commonwealth Court order reversing a November 16, 1982 order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board. The Board had set aside a November 7, 1977 referee’s decision which had dismissed claimant’s fatal claim petition on the basis that the death of the claimant’s son was intentionally self-inflicted. Because the Board erred in substituting its own resolution of the competing inferences from the evidence in this case to find an ultimate fact contrary to the…