State Ex Rel. Johnson v. Industrial Commission

By this original action in mandamus, relator Catherine Johnson seeks a writ ordering respondent Industrial Commission to find her to be permanently and totally disabled and to find that such disability is a result of her industrial injury.

In finding relator not to be permanently and totally disabled, respondent Industrial Commission relied upon medical reports of Dr. Fox, Dr. Brown and Dr. Steiner. Accordingly, determination of this case depends upon application of the oft-misunderstood and sometimes criticized “some-evidence” rule utilized for determining whether there has been an abuse of…