United States Gypsum Co. v. Riley-Stoker Corp.

An employee of plaintiff United States Gypsum Company, one Thomas G. Steele, was injured in the course of his employment through the negligence of a workman for the defendant, the Biley-Stoker Corporation, while that company was engaged in installing a steam generating unit in the plaintiff’s power plant. Steele received an award of compensation in June of 1956. In the following January, the plaintiff, a self-insured employer, notified him that the omission on his part to commence an action against the defendant would operate as an assignment of the cause of action to the plaintiff pursuant…