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Wiley v. Industrial Accident Commission

Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Two
Sep 5, 1936
16 Cal.App.2d 756 (Cal. Ct. App. 1936)

Opinion

Docket No. 10982.

September 5, 1936.

PROCEEDING in Certiorari to review an order of the Industrial Accident Commission denying compensation for death. Order annulled.

The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

F. Britton McConnell and Conant Wait for Petitioner.

Everett A. Corten, Emmet J. Seawell and Willis I. Morrison for Respondents.


MEMORANDUM CASES.


Petitioner seeks to review a decision of the Industrial Accident Commission by which she was denied compensation for the death of her husband, George H. Wiley, who was killed while landing in an airplane at a location of his employer, Universal Pictures Corporation.

Mr. Wiley was employed as art director and had designed a set for the photographing of a picture to be known as "Storm Over The Andes". He went to inspect the set in an airplane driven by Charles Stumar, chief camera man for the production. In attempting to make a landing at the location both men were killed. The facts surrounding the accident are set forth in the opinion in the case of Stumar v. Industrial Acc. Com., ante, p. 429 [ 60 P.2d 557]), this day filed. The essential facts of the two cases are similar and the same principles of law are applicable to both cases.

[1] For the reasons stated in the opinion in Stumar v. Industrial Acc. Com., the order of the commission denying compensation herein is annulled and the matter remanded to the commission for further proceedings.

Crail, P.J., concurred.

A petition by respondents to have the cause heard in the Supreme Court, after judgment in the District Court of Appeal, was denied by the Supreme Court on November 2, 1936.


Summaries of

Wiley v. Industrial Accident Commission

Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Two
Sep 5, 1936
16 Cal.App.2d 756 (Cal. Ct. App. 1936)
Case details for

Wiley v. Industrial Accident Commission

Case Details

Full title:THELMA RUTH WILEY, Petitioner, v. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION OF THE…

Court:Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Two

Date published: Sep 5, 1936

Citations

16 Cal.App.2d 756 (Cal. Ct. App. 1936)
60 P.2d 558

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