Hartford Accident & Ind. Co. v. Tri-State Casualty Ins. Co

The plaintiff Hartford paid some $400 for medical services rendered to an injured workman, Tom Harper, and seeks to recover that sum from the defendant Tri-State. Hartford contends that it was insurance carrier for Metropolitan Paving Company, the regular employer of the workman in hazardous employment; that at the time of his injury the said workman had been loaned to the Metropolitan Construction Company; that following his *118injury it was the duty of the Metropolitan Construction Company and of defendant Tri-State to pay his medical expense; that plaintiff Hartford paid it by mistake and was…