Pacific Employers Insurance v. Industrial Accident Commission

By means of certiorari the Pacific Employers Insurance Company seeks to cancel an award of compensation in favor of Harry E. Sowell for injuries received, on the theory that he was not an employee of Walker-Hovey Company, Inc., the petitioner’s assured. The determination of this petition depends almost entirely upon the question as to whether there is substantial evidence to support the com mission’s finding that the workman was an employee of the assured company at the time of the accident.

Walker-Hovey Company, Inc., owned 460 acres of timber land in Modoc County, California. It contracted…