Rogers v. Ford Motor Co.

Decedent was a man 69 years of age and had been employed by defendant for 18 or 19 years prior to his death. He had had no recent illness other than indigestion and seemed as well as usual when he left home and went to work with a fellow employee on the night of March 10, 1937. After he was left at a gate by the fellow employee and entered the plant, he was not seen by any of those who testified at the hearing until after he was removed from the factory dead.

Defendant filed a report with the department of labor and industry, using the form for compensable accidents, but attached thereto a…