Kelly v. Ford Motor Co.

Plaintiff’s decedent, according to the findings of the department of labor and industry, suffered an accidental injury on April 17,1935, which caused his death by a “generalized septicemia and pulmonary embolism” on July 30, 1935. Decedent was a switchman in defendant’s employ; it is claimed that while he was making a coupling between two railroad freight cars, a piece of cold slag fell from one of the cars and struck his right great toe. A few days later, he reported to defendant’s first aid hospital, where his toe was treated and a memorandum made of his version of the nature of the…