Kaiser Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

NOURSE, P. J.—

The petitioner seeks an annulment of the award of compensation to an employee who was injured during an altercation between an assistant foreman and a fellow employee.

The applicant, Mollie Pruitt, was a negro woman employed as a tank sealer at petitioner’s shipbuilding plant located at Richmond. She worked in a gang composed of two white women, one colored, and four others whose race and color were not identified. All members of the gang were instructed to take orders only from their leaderman. A white man, Pay Jones, was an assistant labor foreman of the plant, who was not…