Rhodes v. City of Detroit

Plaintiff appeals a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB), which reversed an award of compensation to plaintiff made by an administrative law judge.

In a recent case decided by the Supreme Court, Deziel v Difco Laboratories, Inc, 394 Mich 466; 232 NW2d 146 (1975), the employee’s right to, and the employer’s liability for, compensation was discussed vis-a-vis the fact finding and law application process. The right-liability relationship, denominated by the Court as a "jural relation”, was found to rest upon application of the legal principle of "whether 'the employment…