Standard Accident Insurance v. Minnesota Utilities Co.

Losing, Justice.

This case comes here on appeal from an order denying defendants alternative motion for judgment or a new trial. Plaintiff sought recovery under the provisions of 3 Mason Minn. St. 1938 Supp. § 4272-5, as subrogee, having as an insurer under the workmen’s compensation act indemnified the Houston Creamery Company for its liability to the dependents of James William Nelson, an employe of that company, who was killed in the course of his employment August 16, 1937, through the alleged negligence of the defendant in exposing certain live wires without proper in sulation, with which…