American Mutual Liability Ins. v. Otis Elevator Co.

The plaintiff in error is the insurer of the Chattanooga Warehouse and Cold Storage Company, under a contract of -workmen’s compensation insurance, and avers in its declaration tliat it has become legally bound to pay compensation installments to the surviving’ -widow and children of one John Johnson, an employee of the insured. This suit is to recover from the defendant in error, Otis Elevator Company, the sum of the compensation payments for which plaintiff in error is liable, on the ground that the death of Johnson was the proximate result of the Elevator Company’s negligence.

The suit is…