Gumtow v. Kalamazoo Motor Express

The Kalamazoo Motor Express, employer, and the General Accident Assurance Corporation, Limited, insurer, appeal from the award of the department of labor and industry granting compensation to Fred Gumtow, of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The latter claims that on the 17th day of August, 1932, he was hauling freight for his employer by motor truck from Kalamazoo to Chicago and return; that at the village of Lawrence, in Van Burén county, while changing a tire, he punched his finger so that a blood blister formed and opened; that he proceeded on his trip, but upon arriving at Gary, Indiana, he suffered…