Detwiler v. Consumers Power Co.

Defendant employer, carrying its own risk, reviews on certiorari an award by the department of labor and industry to plaintiff, for herself and child, of compensation for the death of her husband, an employee, due, as found by the department, to an accidental personal injury arising out of and in the course of the employment.

Deceased began working for defendant as a common laborer at its gas plant in Lansing, September 4, 1929. Eight days later he was killed in. an electric freight elevator used chiefly to elevate coke from the ground level to storage piles. The elevator shaft is about eight…