Zurich General Accident & Liability Ins. Co. v. Fort Worth Laundry Co.

CONNER, Chief Justice.

It is suggested for the first time that under the terms of article 8306, § 3, Rev. Statutes, appellee’s liability for the premiums prescribed by law, and for which the appellant company sued, was, as a matter of law, -inescapable.

Under the common law, generally .speaking, the right of an injured workman to recover damages is based upon a fault of some character on the part of his employer, unaccompanied with fault on the part of the workman, or of a fellow employee, or of a risk knowingly assumed by him. But in the course of our economic and social development as a…