City & County of San Francisco v. Workmen's Comp. Appeals Bd.

I concur in the judgment affirming the award in 1 Civil 25593 (Swall), and in remanding 1 Civil 25592 (Guzzetti), and 1 Civil 25594 (Morey) to the appeals board. For the reasons set forth herein I would curtail the appeal board’s power to set apart or reassign the portion of the compensation death award which presumptively would have gone to the widow at death, because she has received payments under the city’s retirement system. Conversely, I would limit the city’s right to question the right of the appeals board to reapportion the interest, which, but for the statute of limitations, might…