Truck Insurance Exchange v. Industrial Accident Commission

Petitioner herein, workmen’s compensation insurance carrier for one Max W. Beebe, seeks in this proceeding annulment of an award of a death benefit and other sums to the surviving wife and the mother of William Fleet Gil-strap, who was killed by a bolt of lightning while employed by Beebe as a carpenter’s helper.

The evidence as to the circumstances of the accident was meager, consisting of the testimony of Beebe, whose account of the accident was based upon hearsay. The parties to the proceeding evidently understood that the accident happened as related by Mr. Beebe; no evidence was offered…