McGuire v. Phelan-Shirley Co.

In this suit plaintiff seeks to recover compensation from defendants under the employers’ liability act for injuries sustained at Silver City, Iowa, where, as an employee, he assisted in operating a ditching machine of the PhelanShirley Company, a general construction company, hereinafter called the company. The General Accident, Fire & *611Life Assurance Corporation, hereinafter called the insurance company, carried the company’s accident insurance and is a codefendant. When the case was heard in the district court, on appeal from the award of the compensation commissioner, which was in…