Riddle v. Higley Motor Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

John H. Riddle sued the Higley Motor Company on account of personal injury claimed to have been caused by the negligence of one of its truck drivers. The defendant among other matters alleged in its answer as a separate defense that at the time the plaintiff claimed to have been injured he was in the employ of the Wyandotte County Gas Company; that he made a claim under the workmen’s compensation act against that company on account of the same injury; that the claim was adjusted by an agreement between himself and the company by which he…