Howell v. Industrial Accident Commission

Petition to annul an award of Industrial Accident Commission, fixing the amount of death benefit due the widow and minor children of Ernest F. Ensley. The sole question presented is the method or basis of computation used by the commission in arriving at the weekly disability indemnity and the total death benefit. The right to raise such question in this proceeding is not in dispute.

Ensley was killed while employed by petitioners Howell & Howell. He was a logger, and by reason of weather conditions existing in Plumas County, was only able to work some eight months of each year. In making the…