Johnson v. Chrysler Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that workers’ compensation cannot be awarded unless and until “the claimant establishes by probative evidence that he suffered an injury and that such injury was the result of an accident taking place in the course of his employment”
• finding that the Superior Court judge erred by usurping the Board's role as fact-finder and weighing the evidence, determining the question of credibility of witnesses he had not heard, and reversing the award in the face of evidence which, if accepted, would have supported the employee’s claim
• reversing the trial court for determining the question of credibility of witnesses
• “Only when there is no satisfactory proof in support of a factual finding of the Board may the Superior Court, or this Court for that matter, overturn it.”
• “Only when there is no satisfactory proof in support of a factual finding of the Board may the Superior Court, or this Court for that matter, overturn it.”
• in an administrative appeal “the Superior Court does not sit as a trier of fact with authority to weigh the evidence, determine questions of credibility, and make its own factual findings and conclusions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).