Lacoe v. Industrial Accident Commission

This is a petition by an employer to review an order of the Industrial Accident Commission awarding compensation to an employee.

R. D. Lacoe, the employer and petitioner herein, was the owner of a thirty-acre tract of land in San Diego County. Part of the property was occupied by a residence, an employee’s house and a garden. The rest was devoted to agricultural purposes. John Swanson and his wife were hired as general caretakers. Mrs. Swanson was to do the housework and John Swanson the outside work. In the latter’s testimony we find the following statement: “My duties were to do farm work,…