Stiglitz Furnace Company v. Stith's Administrator

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Stanley

Reversing.

These cases involve the construction in an important respect of the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Ky. Stats, secs. 4880-4987). It relates to the right of an employer or his insurance carrier to recover from a third party in whom liability for damages exists by reason of the death of the employee, or the right of subrogation to the claim of the deceased employee’s dependents against the wrongdoer. The two cases, being identical, have been heard together, and the appeals are considered in one opinion.

Charles Alford and William Lee Stith,…