Market Street Railway Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

This is a proceeding in review to determine the legality of a death benefit allowed by the respondent Commission to a father and mother, the partial dependents of a street-car conductor in the employ of the petitioner. It was stipulated before the Commission that the injury which caused the death of the employee arose out of and occurred in the course of his employment. Some six years before his death the decedent left Calgary, Canada, where his parents resided, and came to San Francisco and obtained employment. Thereafter, and until his death, it was his custom to send to his parents in…