Brown v. Conover

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

In a workmen’s compensation case, petitioner, Brown, joined as defendants his employer Conover and her insurance carrier American Casualty Company. That company undertook to appear specially on a claim of misjoinder, urging that the insurer could not be joined as a party to the petition in the first instance. That claim was overruled at first by the deputy commissioner, and the hearing proceeded as against both the employer and her insurer, counsel for the latter having participated in the trial on the merits to the extent of cross-examining…