Claim of Savage v. Michigan Mutual Liability Co.

Appeal by the employer and its carrier from an award of compensation in a heart ease. Appellants contest the findings of accident and causation. Claimant, aged 49 years, began work as a painter for the employer in July, 1958 at a public housing development which comprehended the erection of 1,800 duplex apartments each containing a living room 14 feet by 25 feet, three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen, the ceilings of which were eight feet in height. Each unit had a foyer containing a semicircular stairway, the ceiling of which measured 16 feet above the floor. As a team, claimant and a…