Coal Operators Casualty Co. v. C. L. Smith & Son Coal Co.

The Industrial Commission held that the compensation insurance issued by the appellant, herein called the insurer, to C. L. Smith, herein sometimes called the employer, covered T. J. Harris, who was killed as the result of an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment by Smith as a coal miner. On this appeal the insurer denies liability, as it did before the Commission, on the grounds that after the issuance of the policy and before the accident (1) the employer was changed from C. L. *621Smith, individual, to C. L. Smith & Son Coal Company, a partnership; and (2) the mining…