Spradling v. Bituminous Casualty Corp.

Willie Brown and Arthur Parr were killed while riding in the automobile of Spradling, who was their employer in a logging* or lumber operation in Blount County. Spradling had automobile liability insurance and he also had workmen’s compensation insurance. The former insurance was in the Tennessee Automobile Insurance Company, a Tennessee corporation, and the workmen’s compensation insurance in the Bituminous Casualty Corporation, a foreign corporation. The real question presented is — which of these two companies should pay the claims against 'Spradling for the deaths of these two employees,…