Egypt Farms, Inc. v. Lepley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[A]n appeal of a worker compensation case is a de novo proceeding in the circuit court.”
• “[T]he normal rules governing summary judgment apply with equal force to Workmen’s Compensation appeals.”
• “The court (or jury) . . . is not bound by the Commission’s fact findings as is normally the case in administrative appeals, but is free to weigh the evidence (and the inferences from it) and reach entirely opposite conclusions.”
• “The court [in an ‘essentially’ de novo trial] is not bound by the Commission’s fact findings as is normally the case in administrative appeals, but is free to weigh the evidence (and the inferences from it) and reach entirely opposite conclusions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).