Combs v. Michigan Mobile Homes

This worker’s disability case involves issues concerning notice, the taking of additional testimony, and the causal relationship between the plaintiff’s disability and his employment. The Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board said the plaintiff’s claim was barred because of its resolution of the issue of notice. We disagree with that conclusion, as did the Court of Appeals, and so remand the case to the appeal board.

The record shows that, in early April of 1975, the plaintiff told Jerry King, one of defendant’s managers, he was having chest pains at work. King gave the plaintiff permission to…