London Guarantee & Accident Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

This is a proceeding in certiorari to review an award of the Industrial Accident Commission for payment of $150 for the burial expenses of John James Uttley Brooke, an up married minor nineteen years of age, who was drowned in Santa Monica Bay on April 8, 1926, while in the service of the Morris Pleasure Pishing, Inc. The petitioner was the insurance carrier of the employer; and the question presented is whether the case must be relegated to the exclusive cognizance of a court of admiralty, or may be brought within the purview of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of this state.

On a petition to…