Johnson v. General Motors Assembly Division G.M.C.

DOWD, Presiding Judge.

Charles Johnson (claimant) appeals from the circuit court’s judgment reversing the award made by the Industrial Commission (Commission).

The circuit court’s judgment was explicitly based upon a dissenting opinion which was filed in conjunction with the Commission’s final award allowing compensation. In that opinion the dissenting Commission member stated that the claimant’s “testimony alone, if unimpeached and believed, would probably be sufficient to establish an ‘accident’ within the meaning of the law,” but that the “record . . . demonstrates such a deficiency of…