National Automobile Insurance v. Industrial Accident Commission

This is a petition to review an award of the Industrial Accident Commission.

On May 25, 1936, L. E. Sherbert was operating a restaurant under the fictitious name of “Dixie Club Restaurant”. J. J. Packer was employed as dishwasher. On that date a policy of workmen’s compensation insurance was issued by petitioner, National Automobile Insurance Company, in the name of “L. E. Sherbert, an individual, doing business as Dixie Club Restaurant”. On August 19, 1936, Sherbert took in Dixie Henry, his sister, as a partner, the business continuing in name as before. On August 23, 1936, Packer sustained a…