Case Name: NORTH PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY (a Corporation), Petitioner, v. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1917-02-03
Citations: 174 Cal. 357
Docket Number: S. F. No. 7537
Parties: NORTH PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY (a Corporation), Petitioner, v. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Reports
Volume: 174
Pages: 357–358

Head Matter:
[S. F. No. 7537.
In Bank.
February 3, 1917.]
NORTH PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY (a Corporation), Petitioner, v. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Respondents.
Workmen’s Compensation Act—Jurisdiction op Industrial Accident Commission—Stevedore—Accident in State P'ort.—The occupation of a stevedore is in its essence maritime, and the Industrial Accident Commission of this state has jurisdiction to make an award of compensation for an accidental injury to him suffered while he was engaged in discharging cargo from a vessel at a port in this state.
APPLICATION for a Writ of Certiorari to review an award of the Industrial Accident Commission of the State of California.
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
C. H. Sooy, H. W. Glensor, and C. L. Moore, for Petitioner.
Christopher M. Bradley, for Respondents.

Opinion:
THE COURT.
Review to annul an award of respondents granted to one Lewis Falvik, employed as a stevedore in dis charging cargo from the steamship "Yucatan," at San Pedro, California. This case differs from North Pacific Steamship Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission, ante, p. 346, [163 Pac. 199], this day decided, in no essential particular. In the latter ease the injured man was a seaman. In the present case the occupation, that of a stevedore, was in its essence maritime. (Atlantic Transport Co. v. Imbrovek, 234 U. S. 52, [51 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1157, 58 L. Ed. 1208, 34 Sup. Ct. Rep. 733]; The Canada, 7 Fed. 119, [7 Sawy. 173]; Benedict on Admiralty, 4th ed., par. 207.)
Upon the authority of North Pacific Steamship Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission, ante, p. 346, [163 Pac. 199], the writ is discharged and the award affirmed.