Federal Mutual Liability Insurance v. Industrial Accident Commission

This is a proceeding in certiorari instituted by petitioner, Federal Mutual Liability Insurance Company, a corporation, to review an award of the Industrial Accident Commission in favor of respondent Sarah W. Simmonds, allowed as compensation for the death of Richard E. Simmonds, said respondent’s husband.

Decedent had, for a number of years prior to 1916, been employed as a lumber handler for Pope & Talbot, a corporation, one of the respondents herein. Prom June 1 to July 26, and from August 15 to November 21, 1916, stevedore strikes occurred, during which strike periods decedent left his…