Waite v. Fisher Body Corporation
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Department of Labor and Industry. Emma Waite and others presented their claim for compensation against the Fisher Body Corporation for the accidental death of their decedent in defendant’s employ. From an order awarding compensation defendant and the Employers’ Liability Assurance Corporation, insurer, bring certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtWiest, C. J.
Joseph Waite, 59 years of age, was in the employ of the Fisher Body Corporation. On January 10, 1922, while about his work, an iron bar fell upon and severely bruised the little toe of his right foot. The injury was painful and he was given treatment but -his toe and some distance back of it remained discolored and swollen until his death about two months later. Following the accident he did not work for two weeks and then worked intermittently to February 23d, and on March 6, 1922, died of lobar pneumonia. His work at the factory was near an outside door and windows which were open a part of…
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