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BURKE v. ONTONAGON CTY. ROAD COMM'N

No. 10 January Term 1974, Docket No. 54,641.

391 Mich. 103 (1974)

214 N.W.2d 797

BURKE v. ONTONAGON COUNTY ROAD COMMISSION

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided February 14, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wisti & Jaaskelainen, for plaintiff.

Vandeveer, Garzia, Tonkin, Kerr & Heaphy, P.C. (by James A. Sullivan), for defendant Ontonagon County Road Commission and Michigan State Accident Fund.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and David J. Watts and A.C. Stoddard, Assistants Attorney General, for Second Injury Fund.

WILLIAMS, J.

In this case it is not disputed that the claimant (plaintiff's decedent) injured one leg in an employment-related accident. Subsequent movement had debilitating consequences for his other leg, because his injured leg had to be favored. The claimant was unable to return to work. The Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board, in determining whether the employment-related injury caused "permanent and total loss of industrial use of both legs" under § (b)...

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