Southern Surety Co. v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

— The appellant appeals on two counts. It becomes necessary to set out an extended statement of the facts in the case and the proceedings taken in the matter by the parties involved in the action.

C. W. Wills was in the employ of Earl Cooper of Newton, Iowa, and both employer and employee had elected to be subject to the provisions of the Iowa Workmen’s Compensation Law. The appellant, Southern Surety Company of New York, had issued to the employer a workmen’s compensation insurance policy which covered the employee. While engaged in the course of his employment, on January 11, 1929,…