Court Opinion

ID: 9668562
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 02:18:01.974768+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:46.105706
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*657Smith, J.
(concurring). This opinion must be read in connection with our addendum to Sheppard v. Michigan National Bank, 348 Mich 577, 603, also decided this date.
Having in Sheppard purged ourselves of error with respect to our judge-invented, long-insisted-upon requirement of fortuitous injury, a majority of our Court now abandons another of our judicially created sources of doubt, confusion, and error, the differentiation (as respects the requirement of accidental injury) between the workman who had a physical defect pre-existing the injury and him who did not.
Ewart Coombe was injured while doing his ordinary work in his ordinary way. The causal connection is clear and the injury undisputed. The act authorizes compensation to him and it has been awarded. The legislative intent has been accomplished. At long last, nothing more need be said.
Affirmed. Costs to appellee.
Black, J., concurred with Smith, J.