R. R. v. . Accident Corporation

The complaint alleges that the plaintiff Ruffin entered into a contract with the Black Mountain Railroad Company to build the road and deliver it free of all claims and liens, which he undertook to accomplish by making a contract of indemnity with the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, and that this contract was "for the protection of the Black Mountain Railroad Company and for its benefit and with full knowledge of the defendant that said insurance was for the benefit of the said Black Mountain Railroad Company."

An injury having occurred to one of the workmen (Thomas Ruffin), who was…