Williams v. Nat'l Cash Register Co., 83.
Decision Date | 09 September 1935 |
Docket Number | No. 83.,83. |
Citation | 272 Mich. 553,262 N.W. 306 |
Parties | WILLIAMS v. NATIONAL CASH REGISTER CO. et al. |
Court | Michigan Supreme Court |
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Proceedings under the Workmen's Compensation Act by J. J. Williams, employee, opposed by the National Cash Register Company, employer, and another. From an adverse finding, the employer and another appeal.
Finding vacated.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Bay County; Samuel G. Houghton, judge.
Argued before the Entire Bench.
Bishop & Weaver, of Detroit, for appellants.
Carl H. Smith, of Bay City, for appellee.
Plaintiff, while employed by defendant as a salesman, carried a sample cash register, weighing about 150 pounds, on the front seat of his automobile, and which he commonly lifted from the seat and carried into business places to exhibit to prospective purchasers. July 6, 1934, he parked his car at the curb of a street and, standing on the curb or sidewalk, reached down, lifted the cash register from the seat and carried it into a store. He claimed that the register was ‘pretty low down’ when he picked it up, and he felt a pain in his left groin and a left inguinal hernia developed.
Was the hernia the result of an accident? In lifting the cash register plaintiff was at the moment engaged in his usual employment and common method of removing the register from the car seat.
In Kutschmar v. Briggs Mfg. Co., 197 Mich. 146, 163 N. W. 933, 934, L. R. A. 1918B, 1133, it was said:
See Stombaugh v. Peerless Wire Fence Co., 198 Mich. 445, 164 N. W. 537;Tackles v. Bryant & Detwiler Co., 200 Mich. 350, 167 N. W. 36;Sinkiewicz v. Lee & Cady, 254 Mich. 218, 236 N. W. 784, all lifting cases and where awards were vacated. See, also, Marlowe v. Huron Mountain Club, 271 Mich. 107, 260 N. W. 130.
The fact that plaintiff reached slightly down to lift the register did not render the hernia the result of an untoward or fortuitous happening.
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