Coal Operators Casualty Co. v. F. S. Neely Co.

The issue involved in this appeal is whether a policy of workmen’s compensation insurance written to apply only to the State of Oklahoma should be reformed to apply to both Arkansas and Oklahoma.

The appellee, F. S. Neely Company, hereinafter referred to as Neely, is engaged in the coal mining business in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Pierce, Porter & Martin, hereinafter referred to as Pierce, are insurance agents and have been so engaged for many years in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1944, at the solicitation of Pierce, Neely purchased a workmen’s compensation insurance policy which was carried for two…