McKay v. Jackson & Tindle, Inc.
Decision Date | 18 September 1934 |
Docket Number | No. 46.,46. |
Court | Michigan Supreme Court |
Parties | McKAY v. JACKSON & TINDLE, Inc., et al. |
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Appeal from Department of Labor and Industry.
Proceeding under the Workmen's Compensation Act by Dan McKay, employee, opposed by Jackson & Tindle, Incorporated, employer, and the Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company, insurer. From an order of the Department of Labor and Industry awarding compensation for total disability, the employer and the insurer appeal.
Award vacated.
Argued before the Entire Bench.
Kerr, Lacey & Scroggie, of Detroit, for appellants.
Dan McKay, in pro. per.
Prior to December 21, 1931, plaintiff was an able-bodied man and able to do such manual labor as might be required from a man employed in lumbering. On the above date and while so employed by defendant Jackson & Tindle, Inc., in cutting a road through to some logs, a tree fell upon him, striking his head, back, arm, and shoulders. By agreement filed and approved January 23, 1932, plaintiff was to be paid compensation at the rate of $7 per week during the period of total disability, based on the fact that his average weekly wage was $7.86.
June 16, 1932, defendants filed a petition to stop compensation. Hearing on this petition was had September 3, 1932, by a deputy commissioner, and an award was made allowing plaintiff compensation for partial disability at the rate of $3.50 per week. At this hearing no testimony was taken and the award was based on verbal stipulations between the parties and their attorneys. No appeal was taken from this award.
July 17, 1933, plaintiff filed a petition for further compensation claiming total disability as of January 1, 1933. A hearing was held on this petition September 23, 1933, at which time the plaintiff testified that he suffered more pain than usual, was more crippled, and had been totally disabled since September 3, 1932. It was conceded that at this last hearing the plaintiff had a 100 per cent. disability. The deputy commissioner entered an award making no change in the amount of compensation to be paid plaintiff. Upon appeal the Department of Labor and Industry awarded plaintiff compensation of $7 per week from April 1, 1933, from which order defendants appeal to this court.
In a long series of cases beginning with Estate of Beckwith v. Spooner, 183 Mich. 323, 149 N. W. 971, Ann. Cas. 1916E, 886, this court has held that the review of weekly payments provided by the Compensation Act (section 8453 of 2 Comp. Laws 1929) is possible only where there has been a change in the physical condition of the injured employee.
In the present case the department found as a fact from the testimony that there had been a change in plaintiff's condition since the hearing of September 3, 1932. The only question for us to decide is whether the board was justified in reaching that conclusion. The following testimony is taken from plaintiff's examination:
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