Opitz v. Hoertz
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Industrial Accident Board. Frieda Opitz, Frances May, Theodore Blaszak, Theresa Richter, Vernon Griffin, and Mrs. Charles Lynd presented their claims for compensation against Charles Hoertz and William C. Hoertz, copartners as Charles Hoertz & Son, and the Southwestern Surety Insurance Company, insurer, and Brown & Sehler Company for the death of certain workmen in the employ of defendants. By stipulation the claims were heard as one.
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Certiorari to Industrial Accident Board. Frieda Opitz, Frances May, Theodore Blaszak, Theresa Richter, Vernon Griffin, and Mrs. Charles Lynd presented their claims for compensation against Charles Hoertz and William C. Hoertz, copartners as Charles Hoertz & Son, and the Southwestern Surety Insurance Company, insurer, and Brown & Sehler Company for the death of certain workmen in the employ of defendants. By stipulation the claims were heard as one. From an order awarding compensation as against defendants Hoertz & Son and the Southwestern Surety Insurance Company, said defendants bring…
1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.
The manufacturing plant of Brown & Sehler Co., of Grand Rapids, was destroyed by fire on January 15, 1915. Soon thereafter Mr. Brown, of Brown & Sehler Co., had some conversation with Wm. Hoertz of Charles Hoertz & Son, contractors, about clearing the site and the erection of new buildings. As a result of this conversation a written proposition by Hoertz & Son was submitted to Brown & Sehler Co. as follows:
“We hereby propose to superintend and furnish a superintendent for the clearing of your site, and any new buildings you will build immediately for ten per cent, of the actual cost of the…
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