Pryor v. Industrial Commission

PRESIDING JUSTICE BARRY and JUSTICE WOODWARD

dissenting:

We respectfully dissent from the majority opinion. The majority treats this appeal as merely a determination of whether the Commission’s decision, was against the manifest weight of the evidence. We cannot agree. As the dissenting Commissioner and the circuit court noted, the Commission’s majority decision misapplied the law to the facts. When the law is correctly applied to the Commission’s factual findings, which came from the nearly uncontroverted evidence, it is clear that the petitioner proved his case.

As noted by the majority, the…