Coombe v. Penegor

I concur in affirmance of the award to plaintiff.

To avoid further confusion, it should be observed that whether a plaintiff’s work was such as “required a degree of physical exertion not shown to have been unusual to or greater than that ordinarily experienced in the general field of common labor” is the test which has been employed by this Court, as in McGregor v. Conservation Department, 338 Mich 93; Nichols v. Central Crate & Box Co., 340 Mich 232; and Simpson v. Matthes, 343 Mich 125, only for the purpose of determining whether an accidental or fortuitous causal event had occurred such as…