Mahaffey v. Industrial Accident Commission

Certiorari to review an award of the Industrial Accident Commission.

Mahaffey, one of the petitioners, was a contractor. In the performance of contracts for repairing and painting roofs, he sometimes found it necessary, before painting a roof, to have the moss and dirt scraped from the shingles. Rees was employed by Mahaffey to do work of this character, and while so employed fell from a roof and was injured. The commission found he had sustained a permanent, partial disability equal to 2514 per cent of total disability, entitling him to a disability indemnity of 65 per cent of his average…