Baker

The petitioner seeks a review and an annulment of a supplemental award of workmen’s compensation benefits made to him wherein the Industrial Accident Commission rated his permanent disability, after apportionment, at 55 percent of total permanent disability.

The question presented is whether the finding that “the injury caused permanent disability of 55%, after apportionment . . .’’is supported by substantial evidence.

The petitioner filed an application for workmen’s compensation benefits wherein he named 23 employers for whom he had worked during the period of time from 1923 to 1961. After the application was filed it was discovered that many of the employers for whom the petitioner had worked had ceased doing business and that their whereabouts were unknown. After such discovery the petitioner elected to and did proceed against four of his former employers, to wit: Paso Bobles Bakery, and its workmen’s compensation carrier, Guarantee Insurance Company; The Bakery and its workmen’s compensation carrier, State Compensation Insurance Fund; The American Bakery and its workmen’s compensation carrier, Industrial Indemnity Company, and McCauleys Home Bakery and its workmen’s…