Sutter v. Kalamazoo Stove & Furnace Co.

Plaintiff, as sole dependent of Jacob Sutter, deceased, sought compensation under the occupational disease amendment to the workmen’s compensation law, Act No. 61, Pub. Acts 1937 (Comp. Laws Supp. 1940, § 8485-1 el seq., Stat. Ann. 1940 Cum. Supp. § 17.220 el seq.). Decedent had worked as a molder in the foundry of the Kalamazoo Stove & Furnace Company, defendant, for approximately 12 years. The testimony of the doctor who attended him in his last illness and the autopsy showed that he had suffered from a bilateral diffused pneumoconiosis and silicosis and active proliferated tuberculosis…