CALIFORNIA-WESTERN STATES LIFE INS. v. INDUS. ACC. COM.

Docket No. Sac. 7402.

59 Cal.2d 257 (1963)

379 P.2d 328

28 Cal. Rptr. 872

CALIFORNIA-WESTERN STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Petitioner, v. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION, VIOLA B. BAIRD et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

March 7, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer, John F. Downey and Howard L. Jeske for Petitioner.

Everett A. Corten, Emily B. Johnson, Rupert A. Pedrin, Weingand, Tipton, Kendig & Stockwell, Jaffe, Mallery & Thompson and Herlihy & Herlihy for Respondents.

Barry Satzman, Ellsworth H. Kendig, Jr., and Barry F. Evans as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.


TOBRINER, J.

California-Western States Life Insurance Company (hereinafter called petitioner) seeks review of an order of the Industrial Accident Commission which, approving a compromise agreement between the employee, the employer and the latter's workmen's compensation insurance carriers, awarded petitioner $250 in full satisfaction of its lien claim for $1,105. We shall explain why petitioner's objection to the order of the commission on the ground that it failed...

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