Walker v. Industrial Accident Commission

The petitioner, Pearl P. Walker, conducted at Stockton a lodging-house containing seventeen rooms. The applicant, Louis J. Robinson, was employed by Miss Walker to do certain work in cleaning the house, and while so occupied met with an accidental injury which destroyed the sight of one of his eyes.

Section 14 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act excludes from the benefits of the law any person “whose employment is both casual and not in the usual course of the trade, business, profession or occupation of his employer.” The commission found that Robinson’s employment was casual, but that it was…