Mercatante v. Michigan Steel Casting Co.

Plaintiff Michael A. Mercatante was employed by defendant Michigan Steel Casting-Company in September of 1916. He first worked as an air hammer chipper and later as a hand grinder. Following an operation for hernia in 1941, he did inspection work in the same room where he had worked as a chipper and grinder. He stopped work on December 12, 1943, when he was hospitalized for influenza, followed by pneumonia. Oh January 8, 1944, he was transferred to Herman Kiefer Hospital.

It was stipulated that if Dr. Paul T. Chapmah, the director of tuberculosis hospitalization and field service for the…