GARY CRAFTON V HAZEL PARK RACEWAY

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STATE OF MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS GARY GRAFTON, UNPUBLISHED Plaintiff-Appellant, v GEORGE ANTHROP RACING STABLES, HAZEL PARK RACEWAY, RICHARD BOERSEMA, MICHIGAN HARNESS HORSEMAN'S ASSOCIATION and HARTFORD INSURANCE GROUP, No. 192797 WCAC LC No. 00 000280 Defendants-Appellees. Before: Michael J. Kelly, P.J., and Saad and H.A. Beach*, JJ. PER CURIAM. I respectfully dissent. To stretch the meaning of a statute as the majority has done in order to overrule the magistrate and the WCAC -- to find Hazel Park Raceway to be a statutory employer - obliterates any meaningful distinction between work necessary to the real employer and any work done by anyone connected or doing business with the so-called statutory employer. This is a classic case of taking the law beyond what is reasonable to fit preconceived notions of justice which, though well-intentioned, ultimately works a disservice to our jurisprudence and to those magistrates and commissioners whose daily job it is to interpret and apply Workers Compensation laws. /s/ Henry William Saad * Circuit judge, sitting on the Court of Appeals by assignment. -1

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