Tjernstrom v. Ford Motor Co.

Plaintiffs ’ decedent, Elmer Tjernstrom, a structural iron worker at the Ford Motor Company, left his home for work at defendant’s factory on the morning of August 12, 1936, a happy, able-bodied man in good physical health.

On the evening of the same day he was brought back to his home from the factory in a car driven by another man. When he arrived home, decedent’s large toe of the right foot was crushed, he was suffering terrific pain in his stomach, he was all bent over and couldn’t straighten up. His abdomen was swollen and had on it a red bruise four inches long and two inches wide which…