Northwestern Casualty & Surety Co. v. Industrial Commission

Appellant issued its policy of insurance to cover compensation of employees of the respondent, Ben C. Gauthier, Jr., specifically in his hotel opefations and other operations incident thereto. The insured later engaged in logging operations, and it was while employed in such logging operations that respondent Charles Doud, an employee of the insured, was injured and became entitled thereby to compensation from the insured.

The áppellant raised the objection before the commission and the court below that the policy did not cover logging operations, and that on the issue thus presented the…