London Guarantee & Accident Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

This is a proceeding in certiorari to have annulled an award made by the Industrial Accident Commission in favor of respondent Maurice G. Read and against the petitioner London Guarantee & Accident Company, Limited.

Read was employed as a soda fountain clerk by the Associated Students of the University of California while attending the university as a student, and on August 17, 1926, in helping to lift a barrel weighing about 300 pounds, bruised his left knee. He considered the injury slight, just a bruise, and did nothing about it, but on September 15, 1926, the condition of the knee had not improved and at that time he applied to the university infirmary, as a student of the university, for medical treatment. He was treated there two or three times a week until January 30, 1927, on which date it was ascertained that the bruise had started a growth on the knee, which appeared to be infected, and upon consultation the doctors connected with the university determined that an operation and possibly an amputation of the leg would be necessary. When Bead learned it would be necessary to operate he so notified his superior, who already knew of Bead’s injury and of the medical…