Case ID: mich_226/html/0091-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Steere, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WILTFONG v. LAKE INDEPENDENCE LUMBER CO.
    This case is controlled by Ames v. Lumber Co., ante, 83.
    Certiorari to Department of Labor and Industry.
    Submitted January 18, 1924.
    (Docket No. 90.)
    Decided March 5, 1924.
    Lloyd Wiltfong presented his claim for compensation against the Lake Independence Lumber Company for an accidental injury in defendant’s employ. From an order awarding compensation, defendant brings certiorari.
    Reversed, and order vacated.
    
      Thomas H. Murray, for appellant.
    
      R. W. Nebel, for appellee.
   Steere, J.

This proceeding brings up for review by certiorari an award to plaintiff .of compensation for an attack of typhoid fever, contraction of which was held by the commission of the department of labor and industry to have been an industrial accident which he suffered while in the employ of an independent, contractor engaged in executing a contract to raise and. straighten up a building for defendant. The infection is claimed to have been caused from drinking-water from a pipe emptying into a horse-trough in a bam of defendant about 150 paces from where-plaintiff worked, which he himself found and told those working with him of, and from - which they drank for some time.

It is a companion case with and the essential facts-are substantially the same as in Ames v. Lumber Company, ante, 83, handed down herewith, by which it is controlled.

This case is therefore reversed and the award set-aside.

Clark, C. J., and McDonald, Bird, Sharpe, Moore, Fellows, and Wiest, JJ., concurred.