State Compensation Insurance v. Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

KANE, J.

Petitioner carrier seeks review of a decision of the Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board upholding an award of compensation to James M. McGrew, a 33-year-old San Jose police officer who sustained injury in an accident while driving to work in his own automobile. Petitioner contends that the injury did not arise out of and in the course of his employment and that the award should be annulled.

The board, in denying the carrier’s petition for reconsideration, con- eluded that because the applicant was traveling conspicuously on a public street, in uniform, carrying his pistol, and…