American Indemnity Co. v. Fellbaum

On September 27, 1915, and prior thereto, M. D. Carr, now deceased, was a contractor engaged in constructing a bridge in San Antonio. In the prosecution of this work he negligently made a deep excavation at one end of the bridge, and on the date named Miss Douglas Stough, while walking along the avenue where the bridge , was being constructed, fell into the excavation and suffered injuries, for which she brought suit against M. D. Carr. Prior to the date of the accident the American Indemnity Company had prepared, executed and issued to M. D. Carr, for a valuable consideration, a certain…