Lewis v. Michigan Workmen's Compensation Commission

Decision Date09 December 1952
Docket NumberNo. 34,34
Citation335 Mich. 191,55 N.W.2d 792
PartiesLEWIS v. MICHIGAN WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION et al.
CourtMichigan Supreme Court

Harry F. Briggs, Lansing (Peter Munroe, Lansing, of counsel), for appellants.

Buell Doelle, Detroit, for appellee.

Before the Entire Bench.

BOYLES, Justice.

On December 20, 1950, plaintiff was an employee of the defendant Workmen's Compensation Commission. She was the secretary of one of the commissioners and was employed in commission's offices on the 6th floor of the State office building in Lansing. Her lunch hour was from a quarter to twelve to a quarter to one. On the above date she had finished her forenoon duties at a quarter to twelve and had left the offices of the commission on her way out of the building for her lunch. She had no further duty to perform for her employer until the end of her lunch hour. She was on no mission for her employer. A few minutes later while on the way out of the State office building she was injured while about to pass through the revolving door. She applied for and was granted compensation by the commission. Then the commission joined with the State accident fund which carried its compensation liability and asked this Court for leave to appeal in the nature of certiorari from its said order allowing compensation. Leave was granted.

Plaintiff's injury did not arise out of and in the course of her employment. The following cases so hold: Haggar v. Tanis, 320 Mich. 295, 30 N.W.2d 876; Daniel v. Murray Corporation of America, 326 Much. 1, 39 N.W.2d 229; Hickman v. City of Detroit, 326 Mich. 547, 40 N.W.2d 722; State Treasurer v. Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, 326 Mich. 715, 40 N.W.2d 776; Gonter v. L. A. Young Spring & Wire Corporation, 327 Mich, 586, 42 N.W.2d 749; Pilgrim v. Menthen, 327 Mich. 714, 42 N.W.2d 793; Tegels v. Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, 329 Mich. 84, 44 N.W.2d 880; Kelly v. Dixie Fuel & Supply Co., 329 Mich. 466, 45 N.W.2d 356; Stornant v. Licari-Packard Grosse Pointe, Inc., 332 Mich. 210, 50 N.W.2d 762; Saily v. 500 Bushel Club, 332 Mich. 286, 50 N.W.2d 781.

The commission cited Weaver v. General Motors Corporation, 330 Mich. 404, 47 N.W.2d 665. In that case, as the opinion points out, at the time when the employee was injured her duties to her employer were not ended, she was not solely on a mission of her own, and she was injured while going from one place to another on the premises of her employer where she had another duty to perform for her...

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  • Mack v. Reo Motors, Inc., 35
    • United States
    • Michigan Supreme Court
    • April 2, 1956
    ...Pointe, Inc., 332 Mich. 210, 50 N.W.2d 762; Saily v. 500 Bushel Club, 332 Mich. 286, 50 N.W.2d 781; Lewis v. Michigan Workmen's Compensation Commission, 335 Mich. 191, 55 N.W.2d 792; Campbell v. Secretary of State, 335 Mich. 237, 56 N.W.2d 84; White v. Public Service Commission, 338 Mich. 2......
  • Campbell v. Secretary of State, 35
    • United States
    • Michigan Supreme Court
    • December 9, 1952
    ...715, 40 N.W.2d 776 (decided January 9, 1950). See also Pilgrim v. Menthen, 327 Mich. 714, 42 N.W.2d 793; also Lewis v. Workmen's Compensation Commission, Mich., 55 N.W.2d 792, and cases there The injuries of Campbell, plaintiff in the instant case, did not arise out of nor in the course of ......

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