Subsequent Injuries Fund v. Industrial Accident Commission

Petitioner Subsequent Injuries Fund of the State of California (hereinafter called the fund) seeks annulment of an award of compensation payments made against it by respondent Industrial Accident Commission, in favor of respondent Baldes. We have concluded that there is no merit in contentions of the fund that the doctrine of the law of the case compels annulment or that the award is without support in the evidence. The award will therefore be affirmed.

In November, 1953, Baldes, then 48 years of age, while in the employ of respondent Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corporation (hereinafter…