Royal Indemnity Co. v. Schmid

OPINION

McCANLESS, Justice.

Shirley Ann Schmid, the widow of William F. Schmid, as her husband’s executrix, brought suit in the Chancery Court to recover $4,432.89, with interest, of the Royal Indemnity Company, the workmen’s compensation carrier of the employer of her husband. In her bill the complainant averred that William P. Schmid, in the scope of his employment by Ransom Enterprises, Inc., was killed in an automobile accident; that she had filed suit in Hamilton County against certain third parties for the wrongful death of her husband and obtained a judgment against them in the amount of…