Maxwell v. Hart

This is a proceeding by certiorari to review the action of the Industrial Commission in refusing compensation to petitioner for injuries he claims to have sustained as a pumpman and blacksmith while in the employ of W. L. Hart in the latter’s mining operations in the Harquahala mine near Salome, Arizona.

The sole ground set out in the petition for review of the proceedings of the commission is that the decision is contrary to, and is not supported by, the evidence. It is undisputed that on March 1, 1934, the petitioner, while in the performance of the work assigned to him and because the rungs…