Packer v. Olds Motor Works
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Industrial Accident Board. Roy Packer presented his claim for compensation against the Olds Motor Works for an injury received while in defendant’s employ. From an order granting compensation, defendant and the New England Equitable Insurance Company, insurer, bring certiorari. On December 7, 1915, claimant was injured in the course of his employment.
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Certiorari to Industrial Accident Board. Roy Packer presented his claim for compensation against the Olds Motor Works for an injury received while in defendant’s employ. From an order granting compensation, defendant and the New England Equitable Insurance Company, insurer, bring certiorari. On December 7, 1915, claimant was injured in the course of his employment. Said injury was caused by claimant’s left thumb being caught in a punch press, necessitating the amputation of about one-half of the distal phalange of said thumb; there remaining a stump of the nail on the upper side of said thumb…
1Opinion of the CourtBrooke, J.
(after stating the facts). Section 10, pt. 2, of the compensation law (2 Comp. Laws 1915, § 5440), prescribes the disability presumed from a list of specified injuries, in part as follows:
“In cases included by the following schedule the disability in each such case shall be deemed to continue for the period specified, and the compensation so paid for such injury shall be as specified therein, to wit: For the loss of a thumb, fifty per centum of the average weekly wages during sixty weeks; * * * the loss of the first phalange of the thumb, or of any finger, shall be considered to be equal to…
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