LaLonde v. Jennison Hardware Co.

On September 2, 1920, Frederick LaLonde, then 19 years of age, sustained a fatal injury from an industrial accident while employed by the Jennison Hardware Company of Bay City as a truck driver. At the time of the accident he was helping to unload goods from a car at the yards of the Pere Marquette Railway Company and the accident was caused by an engine striking the car at which he was working in such manner as to crush him against a bumping post, resulting in his death soon thereafter. On November 9th following, Emily LaLonde, his mother, was appointed administratrix of his estate by the…