Gaidos

Certiorari to review an award of the Industrial Accident Commission refusing compensation to an applicant for certain injuries to his back alleged to have been sustained in the course of his employment.

It appears from the petition that Joseph Gaidos was on the first day of April, 1924, the date of the injury complained of an employee of the Western Brass Manufacturing Company, a corporation, one of the respondents herein, and that the Associated Industries Insurance Corporation was its insurance carrier. Petitioner filed in the office of the Industrial Accident Commission a claim against these companies for benefits under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Stats. 1913, p. 279). Respondents answered denying all liability and also traversing all the allegations except that the applicant was an employee of the company above named and that the Associated Industries Insurance Corporation was the insurance carrier for that company. The application came on for hearing before the Commission, and evidence was taken by the referee appointed by it. On the eleventh day of December, 1924, findings and award in favor of respondents and against petitioner were filed, the Commission concluding…