Honaker v. W. C. & A. N. Miller Development Co.

In each of these appeals an injured employee has been paid workmen’s compensation for injuries sustained while working in the construction of a building. In each instance, after collecting such compensation through the insurance carrier of his immediate employer, he has brought suit against the corporation with which his employer had contracted, alleging that negligence attributable to such corporation was responsible for his injury. Each such corporation is an appellee here. Each has been held to be a statutory employer under Maryland Code (1957) Art. 101 (the Workmen’s Compensation Act), §…