California Highway Commission v. Industrial Accident Commission

Upon a writ of review issued herein we are asked to annul an award of compensation made by the Industrial Accident Commission against the California Highway Commission and in favor of dependents of George J. McGillivray, deceased, who is alleged to have died as the result of injuries received while in the employ of the Highway Commission.

The facts are as follows: In May, 1918, petitioner was engaged in constructing highways some distance from the city of Los Angeles, where the office of its division superintendent, whose duties were the general supervision of the work in his division, was located. Each section or job of work was in charge of a superintendent or foreman on the ground. In the month of May the Public Etnployment Bureau of Los Angeles having received notice from the division superintendent’s office that petitioner was in need of laborers, sent George J. McGillivray to the office of said superintendent, where he applied for work as a teamster, and was told by Mr. Swartz, then in charge of the office, that he could secure a job by applying to Mr. J. G. Beckjord, the foreman on the ground of what was known as the Ridge Route, distant some sixty miles from Los Angeles,…