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697 N.E.2d 943

Sordelet v. Golsteyn

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided May 26, 1998

Indiana Court of Appeals · decided 1998-05-26

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently October 2000

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Relies on Perez v. United States Steel Corp. · Hehr v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division

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Decided 1998-05-26

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SULLIVAN, Judge,

¶1concurring.

¶2The majority construes the trial court’s “Findings” to imply that an independent determination of facts was made based upon the testimony of Dr. Newbauer. I do not dispute that such implication may be drawn. However, in actuality, the trial court’s enumerated “Findings” are not the court’s findings of fact. They merely state what the “testimony” of Dr. Newbauer was. The court did not adopt Dr. Newbauer’s testimony or “acknowledgments” as fact; nor did the court make an independent determination of fact in reliance upon the testimony.

¶3In my view, the “Findings” are inadequate without regard to what the evidence may have disclosed in terms of expert opinions. A summary of testimony or a “finding” that a particular witness testified to thus and so is not a finding that the content of the testimony is a fact. Perez v. United States Steel Corp. (1981) Ind., 426 N.E.2d 29; Hehr v. Review Board (1989) Ind.App., 534 N.E.2d 1122. This deficiency, in itself, would support a remand for findings of fact.

¶4In all other respects, I fiilly concur.

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