Smith v. Pacific Heights Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the benefit of the doubt rule applies when “the evidence is in relative equipoise”
• holding that \a Veteran need only demonstrate that there is an 'approximate balance of positive and negative evidence' in order to prevail.\
• holding that a Board's findings of fact are reviewed under the \clearly erroneous\ standard of review
• holding that when applying \clearly erroneous\ standard, Board's finding supported by plausible basis may not be reversed even if Court would have weighed evidence differently
• holding that Board decision must be adequate to explain to claimant “precise basis” for its conclusions as well as to permit informed judicial review
• holding that the benefit of the doubt rule applies when “the evidence is in relative equipoise”

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