City of Oakland v. Industrial Accident Commission

The application of the city of Oakland, a municipal corporation, for a writ of review herein sets forth that one H. F. Norton had heretofore presented a petition before the Industrial Accident Commission for the adjustment of his claim against the petitioner herein arising out of an accident alleged to have occurred while in the employ of the petitioner on the fourteenth day of August, 1916. Upon the hearing before the said commission the evidence showed that the city of Oakland has established and maintained a municipal woodyard under an ordinance of said city, the terms of which ordinance, however, were not presented in evidence; that the nature" of the applicant’s employment was that of a teamster, whose general duties were those of delivering .wood, hauling garbage, and performing such other services as might lawfully be required qf him by the superintendent thereof within the scope and purposes and object of the institution. That on the eighteenth day of August, 1916, the" said applicant, as such teamster, was instructed by the superintendent to deliver a load of wood to a certain address, and after so doing to proceed with his team to the dwelling of an indigent family for…