Payne v. Industrial Accident Commission

A proceeding in certiorari to review an award made by the Industrial Accident Commission to respondent J. A. McCullough.

The petitioner was the proprietor of a barber-shop in the city of Stockton, and respondent McCullough at the time of the injury for which he sought compensation was conducting a bootblack-stand on the premises occupied by petitioner. Respondent paid no rental for the privilege of conducting the stand, but in lieu thereof rendered services to petitioner as a porter in the latter’s shop. It appears from the testimony that it was respondent’s duty to sweep the shop in the…