Brabon v. Gladwin Light & Power Co.

Plaintiff’s decedent, Jacob Lehman, was a carpenter, but sometimes did other work. He was killed while in the employ of E. A. McGeorge & Son, who own and operate an elevator at Gladwin, Michigan, who had elected to come under the workmen’s compensation act, whose insurer was the Fidelity & Deposit Company. Although little testimony upon the subject was elicited, it seems to be conceded that Lehman was making some repairs about the place, working as a carpenter. In the morning of August 12, 1915, he was found standing, in contact with the metal siding of the elevator building, dead. Surviving…