Associated Grocers v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

JACOBSON, Presiding Judge.

The issue raised by respondent employee’s motion to dismiss is whether a carrier who was a party to a “consolidated award” before the Industrial Commission is an indispensable party to a review of that award.

The posture of this matter before the Industrial Commission was the familiar situation of a claimant who, although presently suffering from one physical condition, is faced with the problem of determining whether that condition is the result of a prior industrial injury or is the result of a new industrial injury. The employee, Harold Van Horn, followed…