Dane v. Michigan United Traction Co.

In October, 1913, plaintiff was employed as a section hand on defendant’s interurban railway. On the 15th of that month, while assisting in unloading steel rails at Albion, one of them skidded and struck his left knee and injured it. Following this hé worked intermittently for the company until May 4, 1914, when he received a second injury to the same knee, while working at Parma. From this time on the knee was more or less painful and later grew worse and finally resulted in amputation on February 6,1916. An award was applied for and allowed by the industrial- accident board. The principal…