Frigidaire Corp. v. Industrial Accident Commission

While standing on the open platform of the railroad station at Reno, Nevada, awaiting the arrival of a train which he was about to board for San Francisco, Elmer Melke was struck and mortally wounded by a stray bullet fired by a police officer at a suspected criminal whom the officer was pursuing along the public street adjacent to the railroad station; and on account of Melke’s death his widow and son were awarded compensation by the Industrial Accident Commission. Thereafter his employer Frigidaire Corporation and its insurance carrier Royal Indemnity Company instituted this proceeding in…