Fontana v. Integrity Mutual Casualty Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action to recover on a policy of industrial insurance. The defense was that the deceased was not within its terms.

The controlling facts were these: One J. H. Vincent, lessee of some coal lands in Crawford county, operated these coal lands by subletting parcels of them to a number of small mining firms, one of which was the Boone & Monahan Coal Company. This firm sold its interest to Joe Fontana and three other men, who were miners by trade, and these four took over the sublease from Boone & Monahan. They named their business…