State Highway Dept. v. Elledge

The record shows that on the 29th of December, 1945, while respondent was in the employ of the State Highway Department and engaged in the course of his employment, and working on a state highway, one Earl Cornelius, a resident of California, and not in the employ of the State Highway Department, while driving over and along such highway, carelessly and negligently ran into and over respondent causing serious injury to his right arm, right shoulder, and right leg and injuries to other portions of his body which resulted in some permanent disability to his person.

Respondent was immediately…