Barbee v. Baker Car Co.

Suit "by Barbee to recover $10,000 damages for personal injuries sustained while in the employ of the defendant.

The declaration avers that the defendant;was subject to the Workmen’s Compensation Act, but had not complied with its provisions in that it had procured no indemnity insurance and was not a self insurer within the terms of said act. The declaration then avers:

‘ ‘Plaintiff would show that at the time of the injury he understood and believed that the defendant company were operating under said law, and that, the defendant paid him for a few weeks according to the tenor of said law,…