Reed v. Industrial Accident Commission

This is a petition to review an award of the Industrial Accident Commission. The facts are simple and undisputed.

On March 11, 1935, W. B. Mellott, a building contractor, obtained a policy of workmen’s compensation insurance from Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, for the period of one year. The insured was designated therein as “W. B. Mellott, . . . Individual”. Thereafter Mellott became associated with Irwin G. Gordon, another contractor, and they conducted the building contract business as “W. B. Mellott and Irwin G. Gordon, doing business as Gordon and Mellott ’ ’. The policy…