Industrial Indemnity Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

Petitioner, insurance company, seeks an annulment of an award of respondent commission reforming and enforcing as reformed a workmen’s compensation insurance policy, whereby the widow of the deceased workman, a relative of the employer, was allowed death benefits.

Prior to August 1, 1946, E. C. Cornish and Eoland T. Schultz were partners in a business venture. A policy of workmen’s compensation insurance was issued to the partnership and to the partners jointly but not severally, running from January 22, 1946, to January 22, 1947, covering all of their employees. On the subject of whether…