Lahti v. Fosterling

357 Mich. 578 (1959)

99 N.W.2d 490

LAHTI

v.

FOSTERLING.

Docket No. 21, Calendar No. 47,766.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided November 24, 1959.

Rehearing denied January 4, 1960.

Aaron Lowenstein, for plaintiff.

Davidson & Clancey (Walter L. Hansen, of counsel, Frank E. Cooper, of counsel on application for rehearing), for defendants.

KAVANAGH, J.

John Lahti was injured on October 4, 1954, while working as a wood-cutter for the defendant employer. A spruce tree cut by him fell against a dead poplar which broke off and struck his head. He was a bed patient from that time until his death on February 10,…