Liberty Mutual Insurance Company v. Adams

McFADDEN, Chief Justice.

This action was instituted by the corporate plaintiffs-respondents, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and the American Potato Company (referred to herein as the Insurance Company and the Potato Company respectively), against the defendants-appellants, Ferris C. Adams and the Union Pacific Railroad Company, a corporation (referred to herein as the Railroad Company). The plaintiffs sought to recover payments made under the workmen’s compensation law by the Insurance Company as surety for the Potato Company to respondent Adams by reason of injuries Adams sustained in an…