City of Flora ex rel. Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Bryden

The city of Flora for the use of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, its insurer, brought this suit against Sam Bryden to recover the amount paid the dependants of Howard Gilman, responsive to an order of the Illinois Industrial Commission, who received an injury from which he died while in the employ of said city. The deceased received said injury September 5, 1935, and died September 16, 1935. The complaint alleges, the right of plaintiff to sue under section 29 of the Illinois Workmen’s Compensation Act [Ill. Rev. Stat. 1937, ch. 48, § 166; Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 143.44]. It also alleges…