Case Name: McCUE v. WAYNE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY INSTITUTIONS
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1948-12-17
Citations: 323 Mich. 213
Docket Number: Docket No. 98, Calendar No. 44,128
Parties: McCUE v. WAYNE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY INSTITUTIONS.
Judges: Btjshnell, C. J., and Sharpe, Boyles, Reid, North, Dethmers, and Carr, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 323
Pages: 213–215

Head Matter:
McCUE v. WAYNE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY INSTITUTIONS.
1. Workmen’s Compensation — Interns—Tuberculosis—Findings of Fact.
In intern’s proceeding to recover workmen’s compensation for tuberculosis contracted from patients in general wards of the hospital, findings of fact by the workmen’s compensation commission held, fully supported by evidence.
2. Same — Tuberculosis—Hospital Intern.
Where an intern in a hospital is constantly exposed to contagion from patients suffering from tuberculosis and contracts such disease himself, it is compensable under the occupational disease amendment of the workmen’s compensation act (Act No. 10, pt. 7, Pub. Acts 1912 [1st Ex. Sess.], as added by Act No. 61, Pub. Acts 1937, and amended by Act No. 318> Pub. Acts 1945).
References for Points in Headnotes
[1.2] 58 Am. Jur., Workmen’s Compensation, § 242 et seq.
[1.2] Necessity and sufficiency of evidence that disease contracted by applicant for workmen’s compensation is attributable to employment. 20 A.L.R. 4, 73 A.L.R. 488.
[1, 2] Tuberculosis as compensable disease. 20 A.L.R. 75, 73 A.L.R. 547.
Appeal from Workmen’s Compensation Commission.
Submitted October 12, 1948.
(Docket No. 98, Calendar No. 44,128.)
Decided December 17, 1948.
John J. McCue, Jr., presented Ms claim for compensation ag’ainst Wayne County Board of County Institutions, employer. Award to plaintiff. Defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Charfoos, Gussin <3 Weinstein, for plaintiff.
James N. McNally, Prosecuting Attorney, J. Lynn Fewlass, CMef, Civil Division, and J. Nelson Wall, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for defendant.

Opinion:
Butzel, J.
Plaintiff, John J. McCue, Jr., M.D.r contracted tuberculosis wMle exposed to the disease during his employment as an intern by defendant at the Wayne County G-eneral Hospital. He was awarded full compensation for the period of disablement. The findings of fact by the workmen's compensation commission are fully supported by the evidence. Plaintiff worked in the general wards of the hospital where some patients, not at the time segregated, suffered from an advanced stage of the disease. These conditions have since been remedied. Pour of eight interns, including plaintiff, who were fellow alumni of plaintiff's medical school, contracted the disease under like circumstances.
The sole question of any merit presented on appeal is whether tuberculosis, even though regarded as an ordinary disease of life, becomes compensable when contracted by an employee of a hospital where he was constantly exposed to contagion from pa tients suffering from such disease. The identical question was presented in Mills v. Detroit Tuberculosis Sanitarium, ante, 200, where we upheld an award in favor of the plaintiff. We refer to that case for reasons and citations.
The award in the instant case is affirmed, with costs to plaintiff.
Btjshnell, C. J., and Sharpe, Boyles, Reid, North, Dethmers, and Carr, JJ., concurred.
See Aet No. 10, pt. 7, Pub. Acts 1912 (1st Ex. Sess.), as added by Act No. 61, Pub. Acts 1937, and amended by Aet No. 318, Pub. Acts 1945 (Oomp. Laws Supp. 1940, 1945, § 8485-1 et seq., Stat. Aim. 1947 Cum. Supp. § 17.220 et seq.).- — Reporter.