Western Indemnity Co. v. Industrial Accident Commmision

This is an application to annul under certiorari the award of the respondent given against the Western Indemnity Company, under the following circumstances: The Santa Clara Oil and Development Company, a corporation, entered into a contract with the Oil Pumping and Gasoline Company, a corporation, the latter to install apparatus for the proper pumping of oil, etc., from a well on the property of the first-named corporation. The Oil Pumping and Gasoline Company which, for convenience, may be called the pumping company, had under its control and proposed to use the invention of George W.…