Powers v. Standard Accident Insurance

This is a workmen’s compensation suit by the petitioner, Alvis Powers, against the respondent, Standard Accident Insurance Company, for total and permanent disability resulting from accidental injuries sustained by him on July 20, 1942.

The Standard Accident Insurance Company was the insurance carrier of Standard, Spencer & Harris, a joint contracting firm composed of Standard Paving Company, an Oklahoma Corporation, Dewey Spencer, an individual doing business as Spencer Construction Company, and Lee Harris, another individual. The firm thus composed of these joint adventurers was under…