Koopmans v. Parsons

This is a review by certiorari of • an award of the department of labor and industry.

The plaintiff is the widow of Alda Koopmans, who was killed while working as a painter on the Whalen building in the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan. I. K. Parsons & Son, a copartnership, were engaged in remodeling the building. They were operating under the compensation law. Samuel DeVries, who employed Koopmans, was a subcontractor to whom had been let the painting. He was not under the compensation law. While DeVries and Koopmans were painting on the outside of the building, the scaffolding on which they…