Adams v. Emery Transportation Co.

An unusual state of facts frequently can lead to an unusual result in the law, *595or, as is more commonly paraphrased, “hard cases make bad law”.1 It is just such a hard case and bad law that we delineate in this appeal.

Basically, we are confronted with a situation where an injured employee has received approximately $7,000 compensation from his “employer” in the State of Illinois for an injury suffered in Brand Rapids, Michigan. He has now been awarded a recovery in the State of Michigan against a so-called “different” employer for the identical injury. The ingredients for this legal jumble are…