County of Los Angeles v. Industrial Accident Commission

This matter is presented here on two writs of review wherein the County of Los Angeles and the City of Los Angeles are the respective petitioners, seeking a review of an award made hy respondent Industrial Accident Commission in favor of respondents William K. Calderwood and Emma K. Calderwood, and charging petitioners jointly with the payment of the indemnity awarded.

The facts, in so far as they are material here, are briefly as follows: Perman C. Calderwood, the son of respondents William T. and Emma K. Calderwood, was killed at about the hour of 7 o’clock P. M., December 22, 1930, by a stab wound inflicted by a person who had robbed a malt store in the City of Los Angeles. Calderwood, at the time of his death, was employed as a deputy marshal of the municipal court established in the City of Los Angeles. His duties as deputy marshal for more than one year before his death had been the serving of processes and warrants delivered to him for service by the marshal’s office. On the day of his death it would appear that he had left the marshal’s office at about 5 o ’clock in the afternoon, and was on his way .to his home when killed.

There are presented here two questions: First,…