McLellan v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.

NICHOLS, Justice.

This appeal in a worker’s compensation case points up the often critical difference between a record which may be adequate to obtain a pro forma decree in Superior Court from the more extensive record which an appellant may need to present to this Court in order to obtain the relief he is seeking on appeal.

Here the employee, Delwin McLellan, appeals from a decree of the Superior Court (Washington County) approving pro forma a decision by the Workers’ Compensation Commission that denied his petition for further compensation. On appeal he raises three issues; these concern (1)…