Morrison v. Industrial Accident Commission

By means of certiorari, the widow and minor children of Murdoch D. Morrison, a deceased miner, seek to review the orders of the Industrial Accident Commission, denying compensation for his death as a result of silicosis incurred in the course of his employment in a quartz mine, and also denying a rehearing thereof. It was determined that the claim is barred by the provisions of section 11 (b) (1) of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of 1917, as amended (2 Déering’s Gen. Laws of California of 1931, p. 2272, Act 4749), which provided that all claims of the nature here involved must be commenced…