Askew v. MacOmber

Defendants Second National Bank and Michigan Mutual Liability Company appeal by leave granted from an order by the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board holding the bank to be the sole employer of the plaintiff and therefore exclusively liable for workmen’s compensation payments. The plaintiff was injured in April of 1969 as a result of a slip and fall on the porch steps at the home of defendant M. Alicia Macomber.

The appeal board made the following findings of fact. On November 5, 1965, Mrs. Macomber, then 95 years of age, executed through her attorney a document entitled "agency agreement”…