Grand Rapids Lumber Co. v. Blair
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent; Perkins, J. Case by the Grand Rapids Lumber Company, a corporation, against Frank W. Blair, and others, receivers of the Pere Marquette Railroad Company, a railroad corporation, for damages plaintiff had been compelled to pay to a servant injured through the negligence of defendants. Judgment for defendants ón a verdict directed by the court. Plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
On November 9, 1912, Herman Spinner, who was a teamster employed by the Grand Rapids Lumber Company, sustained a serious injury in the course of his employment, caused by an accident resulting from a wagon drawn by a pair of mules he was driving colliding with a switch engine of the Pere Marquette Railroad Company, on an alley in the city of *520Grand Rapids, Mich. Previous to this accident the Grand Rapids Lumber Company elected to come under the terms of the Michigan workmen’s compensation act (Act No. 10, Extra Session 1912 [2 Comp. Laws 1915, § 5428 et seq.]), and had insured its liability…
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