Eaves v. Contract Trucking Co.

COORS, Justice.

The appellants, defendants below, raise many questions in their attempt to reverse a judgment granting compensation to the appellee, plaintiff below, on account of injuries sustained by him while he was in the employ of Jeffries-Eaves, Inc., but one question is determinative of the case, and that is whether an employer not engaged in an extra-hazardous occupation may bring himself within the terms of the Workmen’s Compensation Act by the mere filing of a workmen’s compensation policy in the office of the clerk of the District Court.

Contract Trucking Company and JeffriesEaves,…