Standard Varnish Works v. Industrial Accident Commission

The purpose of this proceeding is to annul an award of the Industrial Accident Commission. Richard W. Minderman, a minor of the age of sixteen years, was employed on July 2, 1924, as assistant shipping clerk by the petitioner, Standard Varnish Works, a corporation. The petitioner, State Compensation Insurance Fund, is the insurance carrier. About three weeks after the employment began the young man was killed in an elevator accident. It is conceded that the accident arose out of and in the course of the employment. At the time of his death he was receiving wages from said corporation at the…