Metropolitan Redwood Lumber Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

The following are the undisputed facts in the ease. The petitioner, Metropolitan Redwood Lumber Company, maintained a store at a small town named Metropolitan, in Humboldt County. Henri Gireaux, the applicant for compensation before the Industrial Accident Commission, was an employee of said petitioner in the .capacity of storekeeper, having in charge its stock of merchandise in its said store. One J. T. Cleary was also employed by the said petitioner as its bookkeeper in said store. The postoffice of the town was at the store, and the said J. T. Cleary was the postmaster, receiving in addition to his salary as one of said petitioner’s employees a salary of ten dollars per month from the United States government for acting as such postmaster. The post-office seems to have 'been an adjunct of the store, and. the several employees of the petitioner carried the mail to and from the postoffice and the railway station. A discord had arisen between Gireaux and Cleary, the former having insisted on charging to the latter’s account some small items of merchandise, such as candy, which the latter had taken without charging himself. Some trouble over making change between the two…