Fireman's Fund Indemnity Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

THE COURT.

Pete Novak applied to the respondent Commission to fix the amount of his compensation growing out of an injury received. A hearing was had and the Commission made an award in favor of the claimant in the sum of $131.39 against the Fireman’s Fund Indemnity Company, but dismissed the application as against the employer. The indemnity company has applied to this court for a writ of review.

In the early part of August, 1931, Pete Novak started to Boulder Dam to seek employment. He stopped at Lassco and temporarily took employment under Worden & Forsythe as a laborer in constructing a…