Botke v. Chippewa County
Michigan Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the CourtGriffin, J.
Plaintiff appeals by leave granted an order and opinion of the Worker’s Compensation Appellate Commission reversing a magistrate’s award of benefits to plaintiff. We reverse and reinstate the award.
The relevant facts, essentially, are undisputed. Plaintiff’s brief sets forth these facts as follows:
On July 8, 1990, at approximately 6:30 A.M., Robert Botke was en route from the County Jail in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, to his residence on Drummond Island, Michigan, a distance of some seventy miles. As Mr. Botke was traveling southeast on M-48 that morning, he was dressed in his Chippewa County…
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