Hillebrandt v. Home Indemnity Co.

ROGERS, Justice.

The plaintiff, Lewis Hillebrandt, was severely injured while in the employ of Thomas N. Carnahan, and, as a consequence thereof, brought suit in the Fourteenth district court for the parish of Calcasieu against his ■employer and his employer’s surety, the Southern Surety Company of New York. Plaintiff recovered judgment in the suit against both defendants for $2,000 as compensation due him under the Workmen’s Compensation Law (Act No. 20 of 1914 as amended).

Subsequent to the institution of the suit and before judgment was rendered, the South ern Surety Company of New York went…