General Guaranty Insurance v. Scudginton

This is a Workmen’s Compensation case in which the employee sued both the employer and the employer’s alleged insurance carrier. The petitioner alleges that he sustained an accidental injury at about 10:00 A.M., on May 10,1963. The petitioner is a carpenter. While sawing a board with an electric saw, he severed the greater part of his thumb, his index finger, and second finger.

*534The defendant insurance company, in its answer, denies that at the time of the accident it was the insurance carrier of the employer, Melvin Riddle. Its answer further states that at 9:00 A.M., on May 10, 1963 Melvin…