Verdugo v. Industrial Commission

This Court entered its opinion on February 24, 1971, affirming the award of the Industrial Commission. Petitioner timely filed a motion for rehearing, raising the issue as to whether the rubber-stamped signatures of the Commission to its Award of February 7, 1967, denying his claim, invalidated such an award. This issue was raised in petitioners reply brief and was argued at time of oral argument. The issue was not mentioned in our previous opinion, the Court being of the opinion that it was not dispositive of the appeal. However, since the matter again has been raised by the motion for rehearing and since this Courts view of the problem seems to differ from that of our brethren in Department A of this division, we feel that an opinion touching this issue is now in order.