Ehrhart

Certiorari to review the action of the Industrial Accident Commission in denying benefits to Y. P. Ehrhart, an employee of the respondent Stockton Delivery Company. The other respondent, Columbia Casualty Company, is interested by reason of being the insurance carrier for its corespondent.

Petitioner is a minor and has instituted the proceedings by his guardian ad litem for the purpose of having determined the lawfulness of the original award made in favor of respondent denying compensation to the petitioner on account of an accident resulting in a compound fracture of both bones of the left leg sustained on April 11, 1924, at Stockton, California, while petitioner was in the employ of respondent Stockton Delivery Company.

The petition shows that the respondent employer maintains a delivery service in the city of Stockton, and that petitioner at the time of the accident was employed by it as a truck driver, and was about to depart from the place of business of a certain grocery firm, one of the patrons of the company, with a truckload of groceries for delivery to the customers of that firm. While going to the front of his truck for the purpose of cranking the same, so it is…