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STATE COMP. INS. FUND v. IND. ACC. COM.

Docket No. 18651.

176 Cal.App.2d 10 (1959)

1 Cal. Rptr. 73

STATE COMPENSATION INSURANCE FUND, Petitioner, v. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION and GAYLORD B. WALLIN, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

December 8, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Groezinger, Loton Wells and Donald Gallagher for Petitioner.

Everett A. Corten and Melvin S. Witt for Respondents.

TOBRINER, J.

An award of compensation for a carpenter's loss of a finger in using his power saw at home after sustaining an industrial injury to his eye must be sustained if substantial evidence supports the commission's finding that the injury to the eye proximately caused the loss of the finger. Petitioner defines causation narrowly and maintains the carpenter's "negligence" destroyed it. We do not believe that, as a matter of law, this court, accepting petitioner...

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