Travelers Insurance v. Bumstead

Beck, Presiding Justice.

This case involves the application of section 2 (d) of the Georgia workmen’s compensation act as *713amended in 1922 (Ga. L. 1922, p. 185), reading in part as follows: “When an employee coming under provisions of this act receives an injury for which compensation is payable under this act, and which injury was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person other than the employer to pay damages in respect thereto, the employee, or beneficiary, may take proceedings both against that person to recover damages and against the employer for compensation;…