Johnson v. L. D. S. Trucking Co.

This is an appeal by Argonaut Insurance Company, a workmen’s compensation carrier, from an order awarding counsel for plaintiff attorney’s fees in the amount of $825, to be paid from the proceeds of a $4,960 settlement partially reimbursing Argonaut for workmen’s compensation benefits paid to plaintiff.

Plaintiff Johnson was injured on or about June 30, 1961, when a truck owned by the L.D.S. Trucking Company collided with a truck which plaintiff was operating in the course and scope of his employment by the Loomis Armored Car Service, Inc. Argonaut, the insurance compensation carrier for…