London Guaranty & Accident Co. v. Industrial Accident Board

This lawsuit grew out of a dispute over the application of two sections of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, or, more specifically, over the question whether section 2921, Revised Codes 1921, is superseded by the 1925 amendment of section 2917, Revised Codes 1921 (Session Laws 1925, Chap. 121, p. 209).

The facts are that Great Western Sugar Company, operating in Yellowstone county, carried compensation insurance under plan 2 of the Act. The plaintiff, London Guaranty & Accident Company, Ltd., is the insurance carrier of the Great Western Sugar Company. Claude Cox, while in the employ of the…