Roe v. Daily Record, 66.
| Decision Date | 10 September 1935 |
| Docket Number | No. 66.,66. |
| Citation | 273 Mich. 5,262 N.W. 330 |
| Parties | ROE v. DAILY RECORD et al. |
| Court | Michigan Supreme Court |
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Proceeding under the Workmen's Compensation Law by Constance Roe, employee, opposed by the Daily Record, employer, and Standard Accident Insurance Company, insurance carrier. From an award of the Department of Labor and Industry granting further compensation, defendants appeal.
Reversed and remanded.
Appeal from Department of Labor and Industry.
Argued before the Entire Bench.
Howard C. Fisher, of Detroit, for appellants.
Peter P. Boyle and Louis Rosenzweig, both of Detroit, for appellee.
Plaintiff, a linotype operator, November 8, 1933, suffered a compensable accident while in defendant the Daily Record's employ. An agreement in regard to compensation was made between the parties; a memorandum in writing of such agreement was made and filed with the Department of Labor and Industry, and subsequently approved by it. Under this agreement, plaintiff's average weekly wages were fixed at $16 a week, and the weekly compensation awarded at $10.67 during total disability. September 10, 1934, plaintiff applied for further compensation which was awarded, and defendants appeal.
Upon the hearing, it appeared plaintiff's average weekly wages had been $24 and upwards a week instead of $16, and plaintiff would have been originally entitled to compensation of $16 a week had no agreement been signed and approved by the department.
The sole question presented is whether, upon an application for a modification of the rate of compensation under 2 Comp. Laws 1929, § 8453, the Department of Labor and Industry may go back of the average weekly wages agreed upon and approved by the department in proceedings under 2 Comp. Laws 1929, § 8444, which provides the memorandum of such agreement shall be filed with the Industrial Accident Board, and, if approved by it, shall be deemed final and binding upon the parties thereto.
We conclude the proceedings had under 2 Comp. Laws 1929, § 8444, are what they purport to be, final and binding upon the parties thereto; that the object and purpose of 2 Comp. Laws 1929, § 8453, was and is to enable the Department of Labor and Industry to vary the compensation of the injured party in accordance with his physical condition. We do not pass upon the power of a court of equity to modify, upon the ground of mistake, the original agreement as to the plaintiff's average weekly wages set up in the agreement...
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