Autio v. Proksch Construction Co.

*520Souris, J.

The workmen’s compensation act1 of this State constitutes a discrete enclave within the law.

“The workmen’s compensation law is a departure, by statute, from the common law, and its procedure provisions speak all intended upon the subject. Rights, remedies, and procedure thereunder are such and such only as the statute provides. If the statute is short of what it should contain in order to prevent injustice, the defects must be cured by future legislation and not by judicial pronouncement.” Luyk v. Hertel (1928), 242 Mich 445, 447.

The act provides for limitational periods within…