Ætna Life Insurance v. North Star Mines Co.

The action is brought to recover a certain premium alleged to be due upon four policies of liability insurance; and the answer, after denying certain averments of the complaint, sets up two counterclaims. The second counterclaim is, apparently, based upon some provisions of two of the policies, whereby the defendant deems itself entitled to collect insurance for injuries to its employees, “ as trustee ” for the injured persons. A demurrer is interposed to this counterclaim for insufficiency in substance, and also upon the ground that it is not a counterclaim of the character specified in…