Blanton v. Wheeler & Howes Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal by the claimant from a finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner of the third district, acting in this case as the commissioner for the fourth district, adjudging that the claimant was not a dependent of her father, the injured and deceased employee, taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where an oral motion to return the cause to the Compensation Commissioner with a direction to reverse the decision reached by him, was denied (Case, J.), and…
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Appeal by the claimant from a finding and award of the Compensation Commissioner of the third district, acting in this case as the commissioner for the fourth district, adjudging that the claimant was not a dependent of her father, the injured and deceased employee, taken to the Superior Court in Fairfield County where an oral motion to return the cause to the Compensation Commissioner with a direction to reverse the decision reached by him, was denied (Case, J.), and judgment was afterward rendered (Gager, J.) dismissing the appeal and confirming the action of the Compensation Commissioner,…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The appeal from the Compensation Commissioner was heard in the Superior Court at short calendar on an oral motion that the finding and award be recommitted with direction either that compensation be awarded to the claimant or to the State Treasurer.
The motion should have been in writing. Upon appeals of this nature it is preferable that reasons of appeal and an answer thereto be filed forthwith, and, if testimony is to be introduced upon the hearing, that the hearing be had spéedily; if it appears that neither side will produce evidence, a written motion for judgment for the short calendar…
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