Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

The respondent Helen C. Shaffer was injured while soliciting prospective purchasers of real estate in the city of Los Angeles, on October 20, 1927, as an employee of the Beeman and Rice Realty Company. She made application to the division of industrial accidents and safety, and after a hearing the Commission awarded $192.50 hospital expenses at $3.50 per day, and allowed the applicant $11.12 per week, beginning October 28, 1927, until the termination of disability or further order of the Commission, and dismissed as to the employer. A motion for rehearing was presented, which was denied, and the insurance carrier, petitioner herein, instituted this proceeding to review said award.

It appears that the applicant was employed by assistant sales managers of the realty company to solicit prospective buyers of lots in a tract which it was developing, at the agreed sum of $2 for each person whom she might interest in the property and cause to visit the tract, and a commission of one per cent upon any sales she might make. The record is not clear as to the exact time that she had been so employed. She testified that she began work on the 18th of October, 1927, and also that she worked “3…