Beyerle

This is a proceeding brought for the purpose of reviewing an order made by the respondent Industrial Commission in connection with a claim for compensation made by the petitioner Beyerle against the respondent Benson Lumber Company on account of alleged injuries received by the petitioner while in the employ of said company.

On the hearing of petitioner’s application before the Commission it was shown that the respondent Benson Lumber Company maintains a lumber-mill at the harbor of San Diego, California; that this mill is located upon land which faces the navigable waters of San Diego Bay; that extending into the navigable waters of the bay immediately in front of its property the said respondent company maintains a log boom for the purpose of impounding logs, which consists of an area of water inclosed by a chain of floating logs anchored to piling; that during each summer season the respondent company assembles large rafts of logs on the Columbia River in Oregon; that these rafts, each of which is approximately 960 feet long and is bound together by heavy chains, are towed by tugs from the Columbia River to the harbor at San Diego, where they are anchored in the navigable…