American Mutual Liability Insurance v. Wigley

Under subparagraph 1 of paragraph (d) of section 2 of-the workmen’s compensation act, where an injury occurs to an employee and the employer is required to compensate the employee, and at the same time a third person has injured the employee as a tort-feasor, if the injured employee establishes a legal liability against the third person who is a tort-feasor, the compensation awarded under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act shall be reduced by a contribution from the recovery against the tort-feasor upon the legal liability for the wrong inflicted by him. From this it is plain…