John Michael Smith v. Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. , 388 F.2d 291 ( 1968 )

388 F.2d 291

John Michael SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
MONTGOMERY WARD & CO., Inc., Defendant-Appellee.

No. 17545.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

Jan. 16, 1968.

Sol E. Goldberg, Detroit, Mich., for appellant.

John L. Vanker, Jr., Detroit, Mich. (Butzel, Eaman, Long, Gust & Kennedy, Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for appellee.

ORDER

Before WEICK, Chief Judge, and PECK and COMBS, Circuit Judges.

COMBS, Circuit Judge.

1

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court granting a motion for summary judgment in favor of the defendant-appellee in a personal injury action.

2

The appellant, John Michael Smith, a former employee of the appellee, Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc., was awarded workmen's compensation for an injury sustained in the course of his employment in 1958. That injury was, in the words of appellant's counsel, 'a psycho-physiological-musculo-skeletal reaction.'