Ford

Certiorari to review an award made to T. B. Cowan by the Industrial Accident Commission pursuant to the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of 1917 (Stats. 1917, p. 831).

Petitioner owned several storerooms and flats which he kept in repair and let to tenants. Other than this, he was engaged in no business, trade, or occupation. He employed Cowan at $3.50 per day to do the work required in hanging paper and tinting the walls of the rooms in one of the flats. While so engaged his attention was directed to a leaky toilet in the building, which petitioner told him to repair, and while so engaged in the repair thereof he sus tained injuries for which the award of compensation was made.

The particular finding attacked is as follows: “T. B. Cowan, applicant, while employed at interior repair on April 23, 1920, at Los Angeles, California, by defendant George J. P. Ford, said employment not being casual and being in the course of the employer’s business, and the parties being then subject to the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation, Insurance and Safety Act of 1917, sustained injury occurring in the course of and arising out of his employment, as follows: he fell down a…