Riskin v. Industrial Accident Commission

Petitioners seek the annulment of an award made by the Industrial Accident Commission in favor of one A. F. Miner for injuries which he received on April 18, 1942, while engaged in constructing a tunnel on a mine known as the Ruby Quartz Claim near Shoshone, California. The sole question presented is the sufficiency of the evidence to justify the finding of the commission that Miner was an employee of petitioners at the time he was injured, rather than, as claimed by petitioners, either an independent contractor or the employee of a fellow workman also claimed by petitioners to have been an…