Title: Beatrice Freeman, Respondent, vs. Smead Manufacturing, Self-Insured/Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc., Relator.
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: A08-1403
State: Minnesota
Issuer: Minnesota Supreme Court
Date: December 18, 2008

1 STATE OF MINNESOTA IN SUPREME COURT A08-1403 Beatrice L. Freeman, Respondent, vs. Smead Manufacturing, Self-Insured/ Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc., Relator. ________________________________ Steven J. Drummond, Drummond Law Office, Alexandria, Minnesota, for respondent. Kelly M. Brewbaker, Aafedt, Forde, Gray, Monson & Hager, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota, for relator. _______________________________ Considered and decided by the court without oral argument. O R D E R Based upon all the files, records and proceedings herein, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals filed July 23, 2008, be, and the same is, affirmed without opinion. See 2 Hoff v. Kempton, 317 N.W.2d 361, 366 (Minn. 1982) (explaining that “[s]ummary affirmances have no precedential value because they do not commit the court to any particular point of view,” doing no more than establishing the law of the case). Employee is awarded $1,200 in attorney fees. Dated: December 16, 2008 BY THE COURT: /s/ Helen M. Meyer Associate Justice