St. Paul Insurance Co. v. Henley
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Deen, Presiding Judge.
1. This is another workmen’s compensation case in which an award by an administrative law judge affirmed by the full board has been reversed by a superior court judge on appeal on the apparent basis that there is no evidence to support it. We disagree with this conclusion.
As has been many times stated, the board, not the courts, constitutes the fact finding body. Its findings of fact are not to be set aside because the reviewing court disagrees with the conclusions drawn therefrom. When using the "any evidence” criteria, the facts are to be construed in a light most…
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