Doertch v. Folwell Engineering Co.

John Doertch was accidentally killed April 12, 1929, while in the employ of defendant Folwell Engineering Company, at Lansing. The question is whether the department of labor and industry was justified in awarding plaintiff compensation as Doertch’s wife.

Plaintiff was marriéd to W. G. McLaughlin in Alabama in 1918, and lived with him until 1924, when he left the State. She said he wrote her from Cincinnati later that he had married again. She has not seen him since. On April 14, 1927, she married Doertch in Alabama, under license and by ceremony, and lived with him in that State until March,…