Baxter Decorating & Painting Co. v. Michigan Employment Security Commission

Plaintiff, Baxter Decorating and Painting Co. (“Baxter”), appeals from a Kent County Circuit Court judgment entered January 12,1970, affirming a referee’s finding and the Michigan Employment Security Appeal Board’s order transferring 95.5% of the employment security employer’s rating account previously maintained for defendant Grand Rapids Industrial Painting Co. (“GRIPCO”) to Baxter, thus establishing Baxter’s contribution rate at 4.4%. Leave to bring a delayed appeal was granted July 29, 1970.

Pursuant to a contract signed July 19, 1966, GRIPCO transferred a substantial part of its physical…