Case ID: mich_262/html/0214-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Clark, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SHERMAN v. WINKELMAN BROS. APPAREL, INC.
    1. Master and Servant-t-Workmen’s Compensation Aot — Accidental Injury — Poison.
    Binding of department of labor and industry that rash on plaintiff’s body was caused by accident arising out of and in course of employment incidental to handling low-priced, dyed furs, held, supported by 'evidence.
    2. Same — Binding op Department Conclusive.
    Binding of fact by department of labor and industry, supported by evidence, is conclusive on Supreme Court.
    Appeal from Department of Labor and Industry.
    Submitted January 18, 1933.
    (Docket No. 26, Calendar No. 36,698.)
    Decided March 2, 1933.
    Dorothy Sherman presented her claim against Winkelman Bros. Apparel, Inc., employer, and Home Indemnity Company of New York, insurer, for an alleged accidental injury received while in defendant’s employ. Award to plaintiff. Defendants appeal.
    Affirmed.
    
      Friedman, Meyers & Keys (Aaron Weiswasser, of counsel), for plaintiff.
    
      Coulter & Hampton, for defendants.
   Clark, J.

In this review as upon certiorari of an award of the commission of department of labor and industry, the question is, was there an accidental personal injury arising out of and in the course of the employment 1 Plaintiff, a saleslady of defendant employer, handled a shipment of low-priced, dyed furs, having a had odor. Shortly thereafter a rash broke ont on different parts of her body. Plaintiff testified of the history and development of her ailment and of probable source of irritation. Physicians who examined and treated her testified from their own observations and knowledge and from the history supplied by plaintiff that in their opinion the irritation was caused by handling the furs. Other common causes of such an irritation were named and eliminated, leaving the reasonable inference of cause as stated, and this was the inference of the commission, a finding of fact, supported by evidence and conclusive on this court. See Dove v. Alpena Hide & Leather Co., 198 Mich. 132; Frankamp v. Fordney Hotel Co., 222 Mich. 525.

The contention of occupational disease calls for no discussion on this record.

Affirmed.

McDonald, C. J., and Potter, Sharpe, North, Fead, Wiest, and Butzel, JJ., concurred.