Wagner v. LaSalle Foundry Co.

345 Mich. 185 (1956)

75 N.W.2d 866

WAGNER

v.

LaSALLE FOUNDRY COMPANY.

Docket No. 5, Calendar No. 46,518.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided April 2, 1956.

Edward J. Ryan, for plaintiff.

Lacey, Jones & Doelle (Buell Doelle, of counsel), for defendant.

KELLY, J.

Defendant-appellant claims the workmen's compensation commission erred in finding that plaintiff-appellee was totally disabled because of pneumonoconiosis and in ordering the defendant to pay plaintiff $24 per week, but not to exceed $10,500.

Plaintiff, a man 68 years of age, a molder for 40 years, was first employed in a foundry in New York State.…