Case ID: mich_242/html/0450-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Potter, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

REESE v. CONSOLIDATED COAL CO.
    Master and Servant — Workmen’s Compensation Act — Disability Caused by Accident.
    
      In proceedings under the workmen’s compensation act, testimony by three physicians that plaintiff’s disability was caused by the accident which occurred in the course of his employment was sufficient to sustain an award, although two other physicians testified that it might be caused by bad tonsils or bad teeth.
    Workmen’s Compensation Acts, C. J. § 114.
    
      Certiorari to Department of Labor and Industry.
    Submitted April 11, 1928.
    (Docket No. 115.)
    Decided June 4, 1928.
    Emanuel B. Reese presented his claim for compensation against the Consolidated Coal Company for an accidental injury in defendant’s employ. From an order awarding compensation, defendant brings certiorari.
    Affirmed.
    
      Humphrey, Grant & Henry, for appellant.
    
      R. L. Crane, for appellee.
   Potter, J.

Plaintiff, a coal miner 32 years of age, in good health, employed by the Consolidated Coal Company, a Maine corporation, operating the Uncle Henry mine in Saginaw county, claiming to have been injured November 16, 1925, by an accident which occurred in1 the course 'of his employment, presented a claim for compensation for such injury. Both plaintiff and Mr. Longworth, who worked with him in the mine and who was present when plaintiff was injured, testify to the accident and injury. Three regular practicing physicians and one osteopathic physician testified the injury caused plaintiff’s disability. Two physicians who subsequently examined him seek to account for his condition because of possible bad tonsils or bad teeth. There is ample evidence to sustain the award of the department of labor and industry.

It is hereby approved and affirmed.

Fead, C. J., and North, Fellows, Wiest, Clark, McDonald, and Sharpe, JJ., concurred.