Davenport v. Arizona Ex Rel. Industrial Commission of Arizona

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Doyle.

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court where the plaintiff in error was defendant and the State of Arizona was the plaintiff. The action was instituted to recover payments made by the Arizona Workmen’s Compensation and Accident Fund to Lewis O. Vermillion, who was injured in the course of his employment and who assigned his claim to the plaintiff. The injuries were incurred in a bus-automobile collision which occurred December 2, 1956, in Luna County, New Mexico. Vermillion was the bus driver for the American Bus Lines and was then…