Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Clifton

This is a workman’s compensation case. Herein we will refer to Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company and Colorado Central Power Company, plaintiffs in error, and Julia S. Clifton, Orville P. Trimmer, Firemen’s Fund Indemnity Company, and Industrial Commission of Colorado, defendants in error, as Hartford Company, Power Company, claimant, Trimmer, Fireman’s Fund, and Commission, respectively.

Trimmer on May 2, 1946, the date of the accident, was engaged in constructing a transmission line under a contract with the Power Company. Albert J. Clifton, claimant’s deceased husband, was employed by…