Ionia School District v. Dadd

Plaintiff appeals from a, judgment for defendants entered by the trial court sitting without a jury.

On August 26, 1938, one Albert Varcoe, a carpenter employed by plaintiff school district, was working on á scaffold attached to a building located on plaintiff’s school grounds in Ionia. The scaffold fell and Varcoe sustained serious injuries. Plaintiff’s insurance' carrier, the Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd., paid Varcoe workmen’s compensation benefits of $3,679.

In pursuance of the provisions of 2 Comp. Laws 1929, §8454 (Stat. Ann. §17.189), plaintiff began the present suit,…