Ginsberg v. Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Industrial Accident Board. Dina Ginsberg presented her claim for compensation against the Burroughs Adding Machine Company for the accidental death of her husband in defendant’s employ. From an order awarding compensation, defendant brings certiorari. Plaintiff’s husband, the decedent, was in the employ of the defendant on June 6, 1917.- He and others were unloading boxes of steel from box cars.
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Certiorari to Industrial Accident Board. Dina Ginsberg presented her claim for compensation against the Burroughs Adding Machine Company for the accidental death of her husband in defendant’s employ. From an order awarding compensation, defendant brings certiorari. Plaintiff’s husband, the decedent, was in the employ of the defendant on June 6, 1917.- He and others were unloading boxes of steel from box cars. The boxes of steel were about 1% feet square and from 6i/2 to 7 feet long. They weighed from 400 to 800 pounds. They were loaded in the ends of the car. The other workmen employed, with…
1Opinion of the CourtFellows, J.
(after stating the facts). As the board has found that the deceased was injured as stated by him at various times after the accident, and as much of this hearsay testimony is quoted at length in the opinion, and as the board has expressly held that at least some of it was admissible, we will first consider the question of whether statements of the deceased as to how the accident happened, made after the happening of the event, are admissible.
In the case of Reck v. Whittlesberger, 181 Mich. 463, we had the question of hearsay evidence before us and it was there said:
*134“The rule against hearsay…
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