Nowacki v. Escanaba Manufacturing Co.

It is not denied that plaintiffs’ decedent met his death on January 18, 1923, while engaged as an employee in logging operations. Dependency of plaintiffs is not denied. The denial of liability is based on defendant’s claim that decedent was not its employee or the employee of its contractor or subcontractor. The Escanaba Manufacturing Corn pany, a Missouri corporation, authorized to do business in this State and operating under the workmen’s compensation act, was closely connected with the Escanaba Veneer Company, a Michigan corporation. There seems to have been to a considerable degree…