Harris

The petitioner for a writ of review herein was at the time of the injuries for which he sought an award an employee of the respondent San Francisco Bridge Company of which its co-respondent, Federal Mutual Liability Insurance Company, was at said time the insurance carrier. The petitioner’s injuries were caused by his being struck by a plank on the head while in the course of his employment and on or about the thirty-first day of March, 1927. No immediate disability followed and he continued in his usual employment until June 2, 1927, when he became paralyzed and bedridden and totally disabled and so continued thenceforth and down to and including the hearing of his cause before the Commission. The undisputed evidence presented at such hearing showed that his paralyzed and bedridden and totally disabled condition was the direct result of his injuries received as aforesaid. The claim of the applicant for an award was not filed before the Commission until November 1, 1927, and not within six months after the date of his injury, and the main defense of the respondents, his employer and its insurance carrier, upon the hearing before the Commission consisted in the plea that the…