Vanderbilt Mining Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

Certiorari to review an award of the Industrial Accident Commission. It is alleged therein in substance that on January 30, 1924, respondent John A. McFarlane filed an application for adjustment of claim under the Compensation Act (Stats. 1917, p. 831), in which it was alleged that he sustained an injury by slipping on a timber while working for Vanderbilt Mining Company at Ivanpah, California, on September 26, 1923, causing abrasion of his right shin and a strain of the right knee. That evidence taken upon the hearing showed that McFarlane had worked for several days following this injury and that he had been treated for superficial injury of the leg by a Dr. Brook of Las Vegas, Nevada, but after about two weeks’ time he went to Bakersfield and placed himself under the care of doctors of that city. That shortly after the first day of January following, the insurance carrier had him removed to Los Angeles, where a complete examination was made by specialists on behalf of the company, and also by a referee doctor appointed by the Industrial Accident Commission; that the medical evidence showed that McFarlane was suffering from a Charcot joint of the knee caused by syphilis; that a…