Knack v. Industrial Commission

STRUCKMEYER, Justice.

Respondent, J. V. Moan Company, is a commissary company engaged in the food service business contracting for the service of meals to the workmen of other employers. One of its clientele is the Southern Pacific Company for which food is furnished to its tracklaying crews in some of the western states.

Petitioner is by occupation a cook and had worked for the Moan Company for some 20 years until he suffered a stroke while employed near Horse Mesa Dam in Arizona. He was hospitalized and unemployed for over a year. On June 15, 1969, while living in Tucson, Arizona, he…