O'Brien v. Albert A. Albrecht Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Industrial Accident Board. Thomas C. O’Brien presented his claim for compensation against Albert A. Albrecht Company for injuries received in defendant’s employ. From an order awarding compensation, defendant and the General Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Corporation, Limited, insurer, bring certiorari.
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Certiorari to Industrial Accident Board. Thomas C. O’Brien presented his claim for compensation against Albert A. Albrecht Company for injuries received in defendant’s employ. From an order awarding compensation, defendant and the General Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Corporation, Limited, insurer, bring certiorari. On December 28, 1914, plaintiff, a carpenter, then in the employ of Bryant & Detwiler Company, received a severe accidental injury to both feet and both ankles. Following the accident the Bryant & Detwiler Company, and its insurer, entered into an agreement with plaintiff for…
1Opinion of the CourtFellows, J.
(after stating the facts). Counsel for the defendants insist that the original accident which occurred while plaintiff was in the employ of Bryant & Detwiler Company was the proximate cause of the second injury and that there can be no recovery against the defendants, that the recovery should be against the Bryant & Detwiler Company under the holdings of this court in Cook v. Charles Hoertz & Son, 198 Mich. 129, Reiss v. Northway Motor & Manfg. Co., 201 Mich. 90, Cramer v. West Bay City Sugar Co., 201 Mich. 500, and Adams v. W. E. Wood Co., 203 Mich. 673. In each of these cases the industrial…
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