Hatheway v. Industrial Accident Commission

THE COURT.

This ease presents but one question: Does the finding of respondent commission that the industrial, compensable injury sustained by Jack Hodgkinson was caused by the serious and wilful misconduct of the employer, petitioner Earle M. Hatheway, find any substantial support in the record?

The record discloses that the injury was received by Hodgkinson on July 28, 1937, at petitioner’s garage, where the injured employee had been working as a mechanic for a period of five or six months prior to the accident; that at this garage some twenty-five or thirty persons were employed; that…