Elk Grove Union High School District v. Industrial Accident Commission

Upon the application of the petitioner, a writ of certiorari was issued by this court for the purpose of reviewing an award entered by the Industrial Accident Commission upon findings in favor of the applicant, Edith L. Hoag, that she had suffered physical injury while engaged in her employment as a teacher of the petitioner, and that such injury arose out of and in the course of such employment.

The principal or most important question submittéd for decision here is whether the evidence does or does not support the finding that the accident whereby the applicant sustained the physical injury for which she was awarded compensation by the respondents arose out of, and in the course of, her employment as a teacher of the petitioner, Elk Grove Union High School.

Preliminarily to the examination of the question thus propounded, it may be well to restate the following legal propositions which have been settled by the decisions, with respect to the powers of the Industrial Accident Commission under the law creating that body: 1. That the question whether the accident causing the injury complained of occurred or arose out of, and in the course of, the employment of the applicant, as…