Taylor v. Industrial Accident Commission

The applicant, a newsboy, filed a claim for workman’s compensation against the Herald and Mirror publishers, their insurance carriers, and the individual distributors of each paper.

Applicant was injured on April 28, 1961, when he fell off his bicycle while in the process of delivering both the Herald and Mirror newspapers along one route. At that time applicant was 14 years old. On February 8 of the same year, applicant acquired this newspaper route from the former delivery boy. In conjunction with obtaining this route, applicant received from the former delivery boy a route sheet, and a…