Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. v. Ragan

Grice, Justice.

It is the insistence of the plaintiffs, that Ragan is the immediate employer against whom the claim for compensation shall be in the first instance presented, before in any event they are liable under the Code, § 114-112; that Ragan fraudulently represented to the board that he had regularly in service at the time less than ten employees (Code, § 114-107), so as to render the law inapplicable to him; that the workmen’s compensation act makes no provision for introduction of evidence on the hearing of an appeal in the superior court, as ruled in Burdett v. Ætna Life Insurance…