Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad v. Industrial Accident Commission

On November 5, 1932, Vernon O. Peeples filed with the Industrial Accident Commission an application for compensation on account of injuries suffered while he was employed by the petitioner, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, at Elgin, Nevada. The commission entered its decision and order on rehearing awarding compensation to the injured employee. The employer was self-insured, and in this proceeding to review the exercise of jurisdiction by the commission seeks to have the award annulled.

The applicant, Peeples, had previously been employed in California by the petitioner. The work which he had been hired to do in California terminated. Subsequently George E. Hodgdon, assistant signal supervisor in charge of maintenance and construction of signal apparatus on the Los Angeles division of the petitioner, informed the applicant that there was work in Utah and furnished him with transportation to that state. Upon his arrival in Utah the applicant was assigned to assist in the construction and installation of a detour in the company’s power line near Elgin, Nevada. About December 19, 1930, the applicant was engaged in stringing a line of cable on new poles which had recently…