Lewis v. Industrial Commission

JENNINGS, Justice.

This is a certiorari proceeding to review an award of the Industrial Commission granting recovery to the respondent Max Placincio against the petitioner Ethel M. Lewis.

Petitioner, a widow whose sole source of income is the proceeds from the sale of a farm which she and her deceased husband had owned, arranged with her neighbor Mr. Baugher to supervise the remodeling of her home. Mrs. Lewis requested, and Mr. Baugher consented, that he use Max Placincio the respondent and Robert Flores as laborers in the remodeling work. As work progressed other men were hired for specific…