Thiede v. G. D. Searle & Co.

Defendants appeal by certiorari from an award made in favor of plaintiff by the department of labor and industry, granting compensation for the death of her husband, Dr. Thiede, which resulted from injuries he rceived when the Kerns Hotel in Lansing was destroyed by fire in the early morning of December 11, 1934.

Dr. Thiede, at the time of the fire, was employed by defendant G. D. Searle & Company, an Illinois corporation, as its traveling salesman in a designated territory exclusively in Michigan, which included the entire State with the exception of Detroit. He and one other salesman were…