United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission

By this proceeding petitioner seeks to have reviewed an award made by respondent, Industrial Accident Commission, to an employee of the Julian Petroleum Corporation, of which corporation petitioner was the insurer.

The principal facts are as follows: On February 9, 1926, the date on which the employee started his employment at a service station of the Julian Petroleum Corporation, he sustained an injury to his left knee. Not suffering immediately therefrom to any considerable extent, he finished the day’s work. That evening, however, he told his uncle, who was the sales manager of his employer, of the accident which had befallen him, and on the same evening consulted his personal physician regarding the injury which he had sustained. At that time the knee showed no swelling or discoloration. The next day he returned to his work, the knee then being slightly swollen and painful. From that date and continuously thereafter to the fifth day of May following the employee continued to work, during all of which time he was’ under the medical care of his own physi cian.—on which latter date he told the superintendent of the service station, who was the immediate superior of the employee,…