BRAXTON v. CHEVROLET GREY IRON FOUNDRY DIV.

Docket No. 54787, (Calendar No. 4).

396 Mich. 685 (1976)

242 N.W.2d 420

BRAXTON v. CHEVROLET GREY IRON FOUNDRY DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 3, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marston, Sachs, O'Connell, Nunn & Fried, P.C. (by B.M. Fried and Douglas W. Johnson) for plaintiff.

Braun, Kendrick, Finkbeiner, Schafer & Murphy for defendant.


WILLIAMS, J.

The dispositive issue in this workmen's compensation case is whether the employee's disability resulted from an occupational disease or a traumatic accident. In the former case, his date of injury would be the last day of work when the more beneficial new act applied, whereas in the latter case, it would be the date of the traumatic injury which preceded the effective date of the new act.

The hearing referee concluded:

"Further I cannot...

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