Court Opinion

ID: 9736010
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Date Created: 2023-08-26 18:39:42.703017+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:27:03.312291
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Dethmers, J.
(dissenting). This is an appeal by plaintiff, on leave granted, from the court of appeals’ denial of leave to appeal from a workmen’s compensation appeal board order denying compensation benefits.
It is another case of injury of a schoolteacher in an' automobile accident while traveling between school and her home. The question, as usual, is whether the injury arose out of and in the course of her employment.  The appeal board, on December 17, 1964, held that it did not, basing its decision on the holding of this Court in Baas v. Society for Christian Instruction, 371 Mich 622. At that time this Court had not yet handed down its opinions of February 8, 1966, in Howard v. City of Detroit, 377
*238Mich 102. Whatever may be concluded as to what was decided in that case as far as a rule of law is concerned, I continue, as I wrote in that case, to be well content with the decision in Baas. The appeal board was right in holding that this case is controlled by that. This requires denial of compensation benefits here.
As plaintiff says in her brief, the facts in this case and Baas are substantially the same. Plaintiff points, however, to the following distinctions on the facts between the two, namely: (1) in this case plaintiff was on her way home from school when injured instead of going from home to school as in Baas, and (2) plaintiff here was taking home schoolwork as regularly required for any teacher in defendant’s school system to properly perform her work, while in Baas the teacher apparently, so says this plaintiff, was of limited teaching experience and, for that reason, may have had special need for her own benefit to take schoolwork home. These factual distinctions appear to me to be of no significance as determinative of whether the injury arose out of and in the course of employment.
. The order should be affirmed.
Kelly, J., concurred with Dethmers, J.