Board of Education v. Industrial Accident Commission

WILLIS, J., pro tem.

In December of 1933, respondent Harry Stout was on the county welfare rolls of Los Angeles County, receiving aid in the form of groceries and foodstuff, being classified as an “open welfare case”. The Civil Works Administration (CWA), a federal relief agency, under its plan to furnish relief and relief work in aid of the states, requested the Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles, among other municipal corporations in Los Angeles County, to outline a project whereby work positions in and about the schools might be furnished, the plan requiring that the persons to…