Ashland Oil & Refining Co. v. General Telephone Co.

VANCE, Commissioner.

On this appeal we consider the right of a party which has settled a tort claim to recover by indemnity from the employer of the claimant the amount of the settlement and also the right of the employer’s insurance carrier to recoup the amount of workmen’s compensation benefits paid by it from the party which had paid the settlement money.

The Ashland Oil and Refining Company maintained an electrical power line inside its plant in Ashland, Kentucky. It granted to General Telephone Company permission to use its electric power poles for stringing telephone lines into the…