Case ID: mich_271/html/0306-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Potter, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PATRICK v. CONSOLIDATED COAL CO.
    Workmen's Compensation — Coal Miner — Further Compensation.
    Coal miner who suffered compensable injury, was awarded and paid compensation therefor and filed a settlement receipt held, entitled to further compensation where physical examination, made when he sought to return to work after a layoff, disclosed that he was physically unfit to work underground and evidence tends to show causal connection between the injury and present disability and loss of earning capacity.
    Appeal from Department of Labor and Industry.
    Submitted January 16, 1935.
    (Docket No. 94, Calendar No. 38,078.)
    Decided April 9, 1935.
    William Patrick presented his claim for compensation against the Consolidated Coal Company, employer, for injuries sustained while in defendant’s employ. On petition for further compensation. Award to plaintiff. Defendant appeals. Affirmed.
    
      
      Lloyd W. Bartlett, for plaintiff.
    
      E. B. Reese, for defendant.
   Potter, C. J.

Plaintiff, a coal miner, suffered a .compensable injury August 30, 1928. He was awarded and paid compensation until February 20, 1929. February 23, 1929, he filed a settlement receipt, subsequently returned to work and continued to work for some time, when he was laid off in September, 1932. Plaintiff sought to return to work, but on a physical .examination it was found he should no longer work underground. December 12, 1933, plaintiff filed a petition for further compensation. The deputy commissioner made an award of compensation January 11, 1934, which was affirmed on review by the department of labor and industry. Defendant brings certiorari, claiming there was no competent evidence to sustain this award.

There was testimony tending to show plaintiff suffered a compensable injury in 1928, and was at the time of the filing of the application partially disabled ; that there was causal connection between the injury and his present disability and loss of earning capacity.

The award of the department of labor and industry is affirmed.

Nelson Sharpe, North, Fead, Wiest, Btjtxel and Bttshnell, JJ., concurred. Edward M. Sharpe, J., did not sit.