Stewart v. Lakey Foundry & MacHine Co.

Defendant appeals from an order of the department of labor and industry awarding plaintiff compensation for total disability under the occupational disease amendment to the workmen’s compensation law (Act No. 10, pt. 7, Pub. Acts 1912 [1st Ex. Sess.], as added by Act No. 61, Pub. Acts 1937, and amended by Act No. 245, Pub. Acts 1943 [Comp. Laws Supp. 1940, 1943, § 8485-1 et seq., Stat. Ann.. 1944 Cum. Supp. § 17.220 et seq.]).

Plaintiff was employed as a chipper in defendant’s foundry in Muskegon during the periods from September 16, 1940 to July 10, 1942, from August 31,1942 to April 10,1943,…