California Shipbuilding Corp. v. Indus. Accident Comm

Full title: CALIFORNIA SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION (a Corporation), Petitioner, v…

Court: Supreme Court of California

Date published: Dec 30, 1947

31 Cal.2d 865 (Cal. 1947)

188 P.2d 39

Opinion

Docket No. L.A. 20141.

December 30, 1947.

PROCEEDING to review an order of the Industrial Accident Commission awarding increased compensation for personal injuries. Award affirmed.

Thelen, Marrin, Johnson Bridges and Gardiner Johnson for Petitioner.

R.C. McKellips and John A. Rowe, Jr., for Respondents.

SCHAUER, J.

California Shipbuilding Corporation petitions for review and annulment of an award of increased compensation in favor of its employe Sanchez. Sanchez was injured in the accident described in California Shipbuilding Corp. v. Industrial Acc. Com. (L.A. 20140), ante, p. 270 [ 188 P.2d 27]. The material facts and applicable law in this proceeding are the same as those of that case. For the reasons there stated the award is affirmed.

Gibson, C.J., Shenk, J., Carter, J., Traynor, J., and Spence, J., concurred.

EDMONDS, J.

For the reasons stated by me in California Shipbuilding Corporation v. Industrial Accident Commission and Rogers, ante, p. 270 [ 188 P.2d 27], I would annul the award of increased compensation.

Petitioner's application for a rehearing was denied January 29, 1948. Edmonds, J., and Spence, J., voted for a rehearing. Shenk, J., did not participate on petition for rehearing.